About this story
You agree to cross occupied Europe as a dead man, a South African engineer, with Sandy Arbuthnot and John Blenkiron for company. A forged invitation is answered before you can send it, and a message hidden in the reply proves the enemy already knows which train, which compartment, and which route you will take.
How it opens
November rain found the weakness left in your leg by Loos and the fever after it.
General FavershamHannay, convalescence is an order, not a private test of endurance.
You had obeyed until Sir Walter Bullivant requested a visit without official record.
Sir Walter BullivantGermany has found a weapon in the East no arsenal can inventory.
Sir Walter BullivantThis map joins Constantinople, Mesopotamia, and the Indian frontier.
Sir Walter BullivantA religious rising could move faster than armies across it.