What with all the fuss about the new James Bond film, it is worth reminding ourselves that before secret agent 007, there must have been 006. Not a lot of people know that 006 was actually a woman -- Martha Morgan of Plas Ingli, called upon at the personal behest of the Prime Minister to abandon her mundane "normal" life and become embroiled in some very complex skulduggery involving a number of life and death confrontations.
It was all to do with the safety of the nation and the need to bring to justice an evil genius called John Wesley Jumbie before he managed to assassinate the military hero Sir Thomas Picton. If the evil genius had succeeded in his cunning plan, the noble cause of the abolition of the slave trade would have been set back by decades. And of course the safety and security of the nation -- and indeed the planet -- would have been destroyed at a stroke. And did Martha succeed in averting global disaster by ridding the world of the evil genius? Need you ask?
It's all there, in the pages of "Conspiracy of Angels". As far as letting on about whatever else happens in the story, I am sworn to secrecy........... Official Secrets Act and all that jazz.
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