Baronsbrook

Sometimes it takes more than one lifetime to get even

Just before World War One, two brothers manage to solve a centuries-old family mystery and discover that their ancestors were the victims of blackmail, theft and attempted murder. The trail leads them to a graveyard where they recover a small-part of a vast treasure. But the war intervenes and everything that they have discovered is lost again for another hundred years.A chance discovery enables a descendent of one of the two brothers, to make the link between the unethical business practices of a major London bank, to the theft of the fortune that was used to found it, more than two hundred and fifty years ago.Baronsbrook is a modern day thriller which begins in the immediate aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 as told through the eyes of two brothers who uncover the story in 1913. The descendant of a Jacobite soldier uncovers a story of theft and blackmail and devises a sophisticated financial sting to recover the stolen money and ruin the reputation of a bank.