The Russians have taken Berlin. Hitler is dead! The War in Europe is over. Germany and the Axis powers have surrendered. The war in the Pacific still goes on, but it seems a forgotten war as Europe tastes peace for the first time since 1939.
The world is a very different place and much of it is in turmoil. Old orders are crumbling and new orders are rising from the ashes. The Allies now face the monumental task of managing that peace. Ruined cities, no infrastructure of any kind, displaced persons with no home and even less hope wander abroad. Small pockets of fanatical Nazis still offered futile resistance.
Of the Allied agent who had successfully delivered Henry Fotheringham to Switzerland, there was no trace. A senior British officer travels to that sector and liaises with the US army. Brigadier William Knox is searching for a girl he knows as Rachel Harper – codenamed ‘Bluebird’ who was last known to have been in the hands of the Gestapo in Berlin. Her photograph is circulated, as well as an artist’s impression of the agent who helped Henry. The expectation is that she was executed by Hitler’s thugs.
At a US Army checkpoint, a man called Grigor is stopped and detained. It is suspected he is the missing Allied agent as described by Henry, so the Brigadier is informed and transportation is laid on. Marcus Flavius lands in England to meet with the Brigadier. Finally, is this someone who might be able to assist in getting Marcus to the valley? Is he a man to whom he can share his remarkable story?
From the Romans to the Vikings; through the Tudors and sailing the seas under a Spanish flag, Marcus has seen so much. Was King Arthur real? Was he truly a King, and did he really have a round table?
Who knows?
Marcus Flavius does, but will he tell?