Honourable Intentions

�As a young naval officer, King George V kept a mistress�in Portsmouth. In 1914 an American anarchist is likely to�be extradited to Paris for burning down a police station.�What possible connection could there be? Only that the lad, and his elusive mother, claim he is the King�s son � �and heir to the throne. �With the King about to go on a diplomatically vital visit�to Paris, this is hardly something to be investigated in public.�So Secret Service agents Matthew Ranklin and Conall�O�Gilroy take it on � with the most honourable intentions,�of course. But as they soon find, there is no smoke without,�in the end, gunfire. �Just an exciting thriller from the tense kindergarten days�of the Secret Service? Of course. Except that King George�s�diaries show that, as a young naval officer, he did keep�a mistress in Portsmouth. As a young naval officer, King George V kept a mistress in Portsmouth. In 1914 an American anarchist is about to be extradited, until he claims he is the King's son - and heir to the throne. Charged with the investigation, Captains Ranklin and O'Gilroy discover there is no smoke without gunfire.