Dark Arts Dark Acts

<p>It has taken over eighty years but at long last the British government's embargo on reporting this slice of diplomatic history has been lifted.</p><p><br></p><p>It was in November 1940 that a senior minister at the British Foreign Office in blacked-out London commissioned Holmes and Watson to go to Berlin negotiate a prisoner of war swap with the German high-command.</p><p><br></p><p>And the price demanded by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Göbbels for any prisoner release? That the two work with the Berlin police to capture a serial killer who is stalking the city's railway network.</p><p><br></p><p>But is Holmes being entirely honest with Watson about why the Foreign Office wants the pair to conduct an investigation which can only help the Nozi war-effort? And what else might Holmes's investigation of the German railway network uncover? And how can the United States be persuaded to join the war on the British side?</p><p><br></p><p>An account of real events in London Berlin and Moscow in the years 1940 and 1941 which still shape the present.</p><p><br></p><p>And the reader may feel hand of both Mycroft Holmes and Nicolo Machiavelli behind the statecraft on display. </p>