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"The sooner this ended the better."
Fifteen years have passed since the fall of the Third Reich. The Fuhrer is dead, but his shadow remains. Nazis who have escaped justice have encroached upon every democratic institution in the new divided Germany.
Klaus Becker is a uniquely talented mechanic working in a small garage in West Berlin. But his life is about to change when he is approached to join the security services of the new West Germany. With...
2) By Any Means
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"Was this really his future?"
In the Northern English town of Motbridge, men work until they die. John Williams is determined not to be one of those men. When Harry Heard gives him a fake sword to sell to aristocrat Sir Albert Blackwood, his life changes forever. He meets and deals with industrialists, daughters of dukes, and knights of the realm.
But, all the while a mysterious serial killer, known only as the Breaker, is picking people off at...
3) Homecoming
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"He knew he didn't have any other choice if he wanted to keep his head."
The Great War is over and millions lay dead across the nations of Europe. John finally makes it home one year after the armistice. Embittered and with nothing to come back to, John settles in London.
After a smuggling deal gone wrong, John is, once again, forced to flee to the only place he knows: Motbridge. But the memories of the locals are long and they haven't forgiven...
4) Hard Luck
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"What possible way did he have back now?"
Far away from home in New York City, Catherine Urwin lives a life of servants, idle chatter, and submissiveness to her wicked guardian Francis Hortbury. When her painting class is interrupted by local gangsters, she becomes drawn into a series of events that leads her back to England and back into the world of Theodore Norlong and his political adversary Sir John Calderdale.
Meanwhile, London is gripped...
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"I'm happy that it's all over. Now we can all start again."
Together again, Theodore Norlong and Gertrude Norlong are happily married. Free to enjoy their lives together, it doesn't take long for cracks to appear in the relationship. As Theodore makes his desires to become a Member of Parliament clear and Gertrude dedicates herself to saving the women of the slums, marriage and a happy home life become secondary.
In the heart of London, Edward Urwin...
6) Dark Tides
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"One day he'll get what he deserves."
Johann Brandt continues to hide from his brother as the Nazi occupation of Warsaw continues. As the ghetto wall is erected and the Jews are segregated, Johann makes the ultimate sacrifice in an attempt to save them: he joins them in the ghetto.
Elsewhere, amongst the muck and the poverty, Oliver Rosen is drawn to a flame in the darkness. Zaneta Krawczak is a young prostitute Oliver takes into the resistance....
7) The Reign
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"I'm not guilty."
It's 1907 and David Kelly is, in the throes of opium addiction. Like thousands of other New Yorkers, he whiles away his days in the embrace of the opium pipe. Only a sudden attack on his hideout and the intervention of his best friend Ben Portnoy saves him from losing himself forever.
Determined to fulfil his ambitions of ruling New York, David joins the most powerful Irish gang in the city, the Hudson Dusters. But, his activities...
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"Just another reason to leave this rotten, uncaring city behind."
Three years after the Ebonson family's fall from grace and Gertrude Ebonson has become what no woman wants to be. As a fallen woman, she trades the only thing she has left to survive the cold winters. Penniless and isolated from her friends, she contemplates the end of her life.
Meanwhile, Theodore Norlong lives under the iron fist of his abusive aristocratic father. Forced into a...
9) Downfall
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"This is where your Fuhrer led you. Remember that when you die."
The resistance in Warsaw has fallen and Johann is left to flee back to Germany with the shattered remnants of the Wehrmacht. Forced to join the forces of evil he has fought against for nearly twenty years, Johann finds himself in Berlin, a city under siege, in April 1945.
Elsewhere Erich has fled his posting at Auschwitz in Poland, determined to destroy his wife and take his son far...
10) Out of Time
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"If you believe this is the worst part of your day, you should brace yourself for the coming storm."
On the docks of London men are on the hunt, for John Williams and the love of his life Lady Adelaide. With spies, violence, and murder haunting every step, John has to make powerful friends if he is to keep her safe and take back his shipyard in Motbridge.
But, it's not just the Duke of Cramlington hunting them down. There are far greater evils hiding...
11) The Rise
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"We can be kings of this city!"
It's 1892 and David Kelly has, arrived in New York fresh off the boat from Ireland. The family take up accommodation in the poverty-stricken neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen. In a place where every penny counts, David is, forced out to find any work he can. By chance, he runs into a second-generation Jewish immigrant, Ben Portnoy.
Ben soon teaches David the dark arts of rolling drunks and pickpocketing. David then finds...
12) Full Circle
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"Before he died, his final thoughts were of home."
Europe is on the road to war. The year is 1933 and John finds himself in Paris, once again forced to flee for his life. But, when he discovers that his pursuer Ronald Bell is dead, he takes the chance to return to England.
But, with the baggage of a dead man and his old friends looking to force him into their service again, John realises he can't start a new life now that he's a rich man. Torn between...
13) The Worst Sins
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"One day I will escape."
Madness has become the defining point of Theodore Norlong's life. After his father followed through on his threat to have him condemned, Theodore was cruelly ripped from reuniting with his true love Gertrude Carnall. Now Bedlam is his home, where he writes a stream of working class propaganda.
But escape isn't far from his thoughts.
Miles away lives Edward Urwin. After accepting Clive Griggs's offer to join him, life has...
14) Gathering Clouds
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"After five years they had found freedom again."
Adolf Hitler has swept into power and already the democratic mechanisms of the old Weimar Republic have been dismantled. Nazi Germany has risen and Hitler already has his eyes on expanding the Third Reich. Jews, communists, gypsies, and homosexuals are all targets for the new regime.
Now in Berlin, Erich is appointed to the SS, where he works with Reinhard Heydrich's Gestapo to make the country fall...
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"One day, he would return to Britain in triumph and reclaim what he had, worked all his life for. John would survive."
Years have passed, since John reclaimed the Imperial Longford shipyard. World War One is on the horizon. From his new base in Southern England, John plots to ramp up his profits and begin an ambitious project to rebuild the whole town of Motbridge.
But, there are more, problems than the looming European war. Motbridge's trade union,...
16) Worlds Apart
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"They were no longer worlds apart. They shared the same world."
Fawcett Manor explodes into nothingness as John Williams puts the finishing, touches on the expansion of the Imperial Longford shipyard.
But, little does he know this seemingly innocuous act would open up lawsuits, an attempted takeover of his shipyard, and a man who wants to murder him.
John struggles to cope as Sir Albert Blackwood turns against him and he, grows further and further...
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"The words each of the three shared would go with them to their graves."
The Queen is dead, long live the king. The Victorian era is coming to an end and war is on the horizon. Faced with millions of people dying and Europe in flames, Theodore Norlong, in Berlin, fights to stop the war to end all wars. Faced with a conspiracy to bring the nations of Europe down, he soon realizes he is not fighting a politician but a whole nation baying for blood.
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"Poland would never be the same again."
The year is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. The Third Reich gobbles up nations as Britain and France look on with horror. Within the regime, the German people can smell blood as Hitler fulfils every promise he made to them. In the mind of Erich Brandt, one of the leading lights of the SS, Germany is going to be great again.
But all is not well for Erich when the first air raid of the war turns into...
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"It didn't take long for them both to make a mistake they could never hope to repair."
Johann Brandt picks up the pieces of his life after the destruction of his resistance cell. On the run from his SS brother Erich Brandt, he moves around Warsaw never knowing if death is just around the corner. But when a strange neighbour confronts him about Marek Goryl, Johann uncovers a plan that could destroy millions all over Europe.
Elsewhere in the city,...
20) Defiance
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"Erich would never forget the day he betrayed the Third Reich."
Reinhard Heydrich is dead. And with it the chances of Erich Brandt ever returning from the Eastern front are also dead. Erich struggles to find a way out of the Einsatzgruppen death squads and back to finish the work he had started in Poland, but
thousands of miles away and with the Red Army throwing their whole weight against him his chances are ebbing away.
Johann Brandt continues...
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