The House of Spies
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England waits in dread of invasion. Along the wild southern shore, where smugglers run their cargoes by moonlight and the downs roll black against the sea, a brooding house upon the cliffs has become a nest of treachery. Within its walls a charming, ruthless foreign agent gathers the secrets that could open the coast to a conquering army.
A headstrong young squire, chasing horse-thieves into the night, stumbles upon the house and the spirited girl held within its master’s grasp. What begins as idle curiosity hardens into something far more dangerous, for he has lost his heart to the one person standing at the very centre of the plot.
Caught between his loyalty to his country and the woman he cannot abandon, he must outwit a cunning enemy in a deadly game of signals, ambushes, and midnight betrayals—before the tide turns and the spy slips across the Channel.
Warwick Deeping
Warwick Deeping was an English novelist and short-story writer whose career spanned the first half of the twentieth century. Born in 1877, he originally trained in medicine before turning to fiction. He became widely known for novels that combined strong storytelling with themes of loyalty, sacrifice, social change, and personal endurance. His best-known work, Sorrell and Son, became an international success, and he went on to publish dozens of novels and numerous short stories. Deeping died in 1950.
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