The Corners of the Globe av Robert Goddard

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<p>Spring, 1919. James ¿Max¿ Maxted, former Great War flying ace, returns to the trail of murder, treachery and half-buried secrets he set out on in <i>The Ways of the World.</i> He left Paris after avenging the murder of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, a senior member of the British delegation to the post-war peace conference. But he was convinced there was more ¿ much more ¿ to be discovered about what Sir Henry had been trying to accomplish. And he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the truth of it.<br><br>Now, enlisted under false colours in Lemmer¿s service but with his loyalty pledged to the British Secret Service, Max sets out on his first ¿ and possibly last ¿ mission for Lemmer. It takes him to the far north of Scotland ¿ to the Orkney Isles, where the German High Seas Fleet has been impounded in Scapa Flow, its fate to be decided at the conference-table in Paris. Max has been sent to recover a document held aboard one of the German ships. What that document co