The Shadow War - THE TAGUS DECEPTION

<p>A gripping new historical espionage thriller set in the darkest corners of the Peninsular War.<br>When a dead courier drifts onto the Tagus riverbank Captain George Scovell-brilliant engineer reluctant spy outsider within Wellington's army-is drawn into a covert war he never asked to fight.<br>The body carries a fragment of a machine unlike anything seen before.<br>A strange wheel.<br>Meticulously engineered.<br>Impossible for a simple courier to understand yet dangerous enough to kill for.<br>Following a hidden trail upriver Scovell uncovers:<br>• French agents moving through Lisbon's shadows<br>• Mills altered to conceal coded crates<br>• A web of watchers couriers and silent signals<br>• And whispers of a device capable of reshaping the war itself.<br>To stop it Scovell must navigate a city on edge an army under pressure and a river that hides more than it reveals. Every clue leads him closer to the French spymaster Vermelles and deeper into a conflict where one misstep means death.<br>When Scovell finally intercepts a key French courier he finds something that changes everything:<br>proof of a machine that can manipulate ciphers... and perhaps even probability itself.<br>But the real threat lies further upriver.<br>And Vermelles now knows Scovell is coming.<br>Fans of Robert Harris Bernard Cornwell Len Deighton and le Carré will love this tense atmospheric novelette series filled with intelligence danger and discovery.<br> </p>