Böcker av David Lunt

Golf was the most popular stick and ball game throughout the 1800s in the UK, but it wasn't the golf played in Scotland. It was 'poor man's golf' as played throughout all the former Danelaw area of England and more properly called knur and spell. This game was played by thousands of players, in hundreds or even thousands of locations, across a very wide area. It was played for centuries in all the northern counties of England including the ones which border on Scotland. It was even played it Scotland itself and was also played in Australia. Strangely enough, the Scots rarely give this game a mention when they talk about the origins of golf. How does that work?

In the years leading up to the Second World War, a steady trickle of German agents make their way quietly across the English Channel where they disappear into the anonymity of the British way of life. Some feed back information to their masters in Berlin while others simply wait for the signal to act.At the outbreak of hostilities, two agents are given their assignment: An audacious theft from under the very noses of the British Secret Service who in turn are desperately trying to locate and eliminate them. But they are not alone. At the very heart of the country that they are hoping to destroy, others are quietly helping them.....