Vanished Messenger, The

Before the guns of a world war can sound, the true battles are fought in the shadows. As a devastating tempest batters the English coastline, an American envoy carrying a secret mandate of catastrophic importance boards a special train for the sea. But he is not alone. Trailed by a sullen youth entangled in a treacherous web, the envoy's journey goes violently off the rails. When he wakes, he is the captive of one of the most brilliant and dangerous men in Europe: the eccentric mastermind, Miles Fentolin. Operating an elaborate espionage network from his isolated, flood-bound estate of St. David's Hall, Fentolin plays a deadly game with the fate of empires. With England on the brink of a ruinous conflict and an underground coalition of foreign powers conspiring to carve up the globe, it falls to an unsuspecting adventurer, Richard Hamel, and Fentolin's terrified niece, to navigate a maze of deception. They must expose the plot and stop a madman before a vanished messenger is silenced forever. The Vanished Messenger is a riveting tale of pre-war espionage, gothic isolation, and relentless suspense that will leave listeners breathless until the final tide rolls in.