The Spy on Putney Bridge: A Mystery Novel of Espionage Murder and Betrayal in London

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In an aging mansion on the north side of Londons Putney Bridge an old woman confesses a secret to her grandson just returned home from the battlefields of World War II. Charlotte Stetchworth has always appeared to be a proper Englishwoman though with a lively background as a suffragette and European traveler. Now her grandson Freddy learns a sinister secret that Charlotte and her son RollyFreddys fatherwere involved in a complex web of spying for the Germans starting in World War I. In this captivating novel by historian and Army veteran Colonel David Fitz-Enz we follow Rolly throughout the European theater of World War I. Rags as he is known to friends and colleagues is assigned to the staff of Major General Avery Hilliard Hopewell an inspector general for the British Army whose work takes him from the battlefields of France to Alexandria and Gallipoli and beyond. Rags travels lead him to army hospitals a mysterious father figure a beautiful nurse wracked with grief and Churchills War Rooms. Along the way he and Charlotte learn the art of spycraft and use any means necessary to keep their secret. But while Freddy is told his familys covert history he begins to suspect that Charlotte has just scratched the surface. Beginning his own investigation Freddy learns that there is much more to discover about the spy on Putney Bridge.