I am pleased to reveal the front cover of my latest book. The Suicide Club is the fifth book in my WW1 series and its core subjects are the highly secret Coastal Motor Boats and the top secret world of Room 40, the Royal Navy's code breaking centre. I hope the book will be released within a few weeks, but in the meantime, let this whet your appetite.
In 1916, despite his courage in temporary command of a destroyer action, John Miller faces the risk of a court martial for cowardice and desertion from his place of duty in the face of the enemy. To restore his reputation he volunteers for hazardous duty with a highly secret flotilla of Coastal Motor Boats (CMBs). These new craft with a shallow draught, a high speed and armed with a torpedo are designed to cross enemy minefields and attack German destroyers in their harbours and anchorages.
Whilst John proves his courage time and time again on daring raids against the Germans as a junior CMB officer, his father, Admiral William Miller, grapples with grand strategy to bring the German Navy to action. In 1917, the U-boats are crippling Britain’s maritime trade, Russia is collapsing on the Eastern Front and Britain is going bankrupt. Britain looks likely to lose the war. Then a Top Secret German telegram falls into William’s lap and he sees a way to persuade the Americans to enter the war…
With the Germans mounting a last-ditch offensive to knock France out of the war and her U-boats poised to sink the transatlantic convoys of US reinforcements, John and William’s lives become entwined in a highly audacious offensive to block the U-boat bases in Belgium.
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