The Deptford Confession - Book Club Edition: A Nathan Tower Novel of Espionage and Intrigue

London, June 1887. Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee has drawn royalty and heads of state from across the world to celebrate fifty years of imperial reign. While the city stages the grandest pageant of the age, a small circle of British naval officers is preparing to destroy everything the Jubilee represents - and trigger a war in the Caribbean that Britain and Spain cannot survive.American intelligence officer Sophie Baumann arrives in London with her husband and partner, Meade Meadows, to stop them. The conspiracy runs deeper than anyone expected: a corrupt American diplomat is funding it, an Admiralty admiral has been recruited through his obsession with a four-hundred-year-old murder mystery, and a young naval attaché is working alone, undercover, aboard the very ship at the center of the plot.The third novel in the Nathan Tower espionage series, The Deptford Confession is a meticulously researched historical thriller set at the height of the British Empire - and at the moment of its deepest anxiety.This Book Club Edition includes a Note from the Author, five sections of Historical Background on Victorian London and the era's intelligence landscape, and a Reader's Guide with discussion questions for reading groups. An ideal companion for book clubs, history enthusiasts, and readers who want to go deeper into the world of the novel.