At the Court of Charlemagne

Oskar Lenkeit is a fish out of water at the EEC in spring 1969. He's about to find out how far. Echoes from the past are threatening to disturb the three-year old truce between France and Germany over the direction of the EEC. At the request of some unlikely sponsors, Lenkeit takes on an Internal Affairs investigation intended to restore the peace, but ends up with a foot on either side of a widening rift. With corruption at the pinnacle of European society, can the project survive, will France and Germany finally set aside old differences, or will their countries' ghosts bring it down? Written for fans of Philip Kerr, Len Deighton, Robert Harris and John Le Carré, who are looking for a European Union origins story of the same genre and set in a similar era.