Room 40

25 Years Before Bletchley Park, Code-breakers Gather

by Dominic Hayes

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Pub Date Feb 23 2020 | Archive Date Oct 19 2021

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THE ADMIRALTY, OCTOBER 1914

When Sir Alfred Ewing assembles a group of codebreakers in Room 40, expectations are high they will soon decipher enemy cables. But the team make little headway and the new Director of Intelligence, Captain 'Blinker’ Hall, is desperate for a solution.

As the Royal Navy reels with the defeat at Coronel, the two men clash. Hall will need all his cunning to bypass Ewing's obsession with secrecy and find the key before the next encounter at sea.

And when Germany’s foremost spy discovers the British are about to crack their codes, the Captain must prevent the knowledge reaching the Kaiser.

Who can he trust with the task when he is not only fighting the enemy but battling people on his own side?

THE ADMIRALTY, OCTOBER 1914

When Sir Alfred Ewing assembles a group of codebreakers in Room 40, expectations are high they will soon decipher enemy cables. But the team make little headway and the...

Advance Praise

The research is impeccable, the characters, although mainly all real people, are brilliantly realised and the story just rolls along at a relentless pace. I was so disappointed to get to the end, but only because I was so engrossed in the doings of British Naval Intelligence, and the race to decipher the German naval code in the early days of the First World War.