[Thaddeus Hunloke 01] • Dancing With Artie

England, winter 1944.

Britain is suffering from a critical labour shortage. Low risk Axis prisoners of war fill the gaps, housed in POW camps where they are released daily into the local community to work.

What better way for Germany to introduce fifth columnists into the country than to have them inserted by the British themselves...?

Captain Thaddeus Hunloke, seconded from Scotland Yard, is dispatched by the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (UK) along with Lieutenant Brian Conway to Camp 876 to investigate claims that Waffen-SS prisoners of war have successfully passed themselves off as low risk Wehrmacht troops.

Camp 876 is located in a remote area of the Derbyshire Dales amid the forested lands belonging to a private estate, home to the Gothic Revival mansion of Flash House. Here, both men fall under the influence of the imposing manor with a troubled past. Hunloke particularly is soon under the sway of the solitary inhabitant, Poppy Gray and supposed cleaner, Carey Gladwin.

When five suspected Waffen-SS POW’s escape and the camp commandant is found murdered, it falls upon Hunloke to investigate any connection between the two events whilst coming to grips with the disturbing and unnatural goings on at the house relating back to the Great War.

When coincidences begin to stack up at an alarming rate, it is clear to Hunloke that the hand of design is clearly at work and that nothing is as it first appears.