Fighter in The Wind

"Lt Colonel Dan Rooney is a true patriot who serves our country with courage and honor."—George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States

London 1909: The British Empire spans the globe, seen as an invulnerable imperial power–but in Russia, there is revolution in the wind; in Germany, an arms race; and in London, the streets are alive with foreign agents provocateur.
Vernon Kell, head of counterintelligence at the war office, wants to set up a Secret Service, an agency with a mandate to act domestically and abroad to protect the Empire, but to convince his political masters he needs proof of a threat. To find that proof, he needs an agent he can trust who is smart, ruthless, and able to blend in with the hoi polloi…