A Rebecca Shaw Mystery Thriller - Book 3 of The Rebecca Shaw FilesBy M. J. CalderwickRebecca Shaw has managed eleven quiet days. On the twelfth, someone enters her locked cottage without triggering the alarm and steals a Victoria Cross connected to a woman who should not exist. Captain Rebecca Bell. SOE. 1944. Bell looks disturbingly like Rebecca. Her medal is real, yet there is no official record of her receiving it.
And someone has written a message across her photograph:SHE DIDN'T EARN IT. ASK WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER FIVE. The trail leads to Whitehaven and a missing man named Samuel Reed, who supposedly vanished three months earlier-despite Rebecca having met him only eleven days ago. Then she discovers the six. In June 1944, six secret operatives entered a hidden facility beneath Whitehaven. Officially, none survived.
Yet someone emerged carrying Rebecca Bell's identity, and decades later the consequences of that wartime experiment are still being concealed. Its name was Lazarus. What began as an attempt to preserve valuable intelligence identities evolved into something far darker: psychological conditioning powerful enough to give people memories, histories and personalities that were never their own. Deep beneath Whitehaven harbour, Rebecca discovers that Lazarus never truly died.
Someone has spent generations preserving its work. And now six compatible people have been brought together again. Rebecca. Rachel. Daniel. Mason. Lucy. Samuel. Six people. Six identities waiting to be assigned. Six go in. One returns. To stop Lazarus, Rebecca must uncover what really happened in 1944, who stole the Victoria Cross, and why her own family appears to have been connected to Whitehaven long before she was born.
But the deeper she goes, the more dangerous the question becomes. If memories can be manufactured, identities inherited and entire lives rewritten... How much of Rebecca Shaw truly belongs to Rebecca Shaw?And beneath the sea, something built eighty years ago is waiting to begin again. Whitehaven is Book 3 of The Rebecca Shaw Files, a fast-moving British conspiracy thriller combining wartime secrets, military intrigue, psychological experimentation, hidden underground facilities and a mystery stretching from the Second World War into the present day.
A Rebecca Shaw Mystery Thriller - Book 3 of The Rebecca Shaw FilesBy M. J. CalderwickRebecca Shaw has managed eleven quiet days. On the twelfth, someone enters her locked cottage without triggering the alarm and steals a Victoria Cross connected to a woman who should not exist. Captain Rebecca Bell. SOE. 1944. Bell looks disturbingly like Rebecca. Her medal is real, yet there is no official record of her receiving it.
And someone has written a message across her photograph:SHE DIDN'T EARN IT. ASK WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER FIVE. The trail leads to Whitehaven and a missing man named Samuel Reed, who supposedly vanished three months earlier-despite Rebecca having met him only eleven days ago. Then she discovers the six. In June 1944, six secret operatives entered a hidden facility beneath Whitehaven. Officially, none survived.
Yet someone emerged carrying Rebecca Bell's identity, and decades later the consequences of that wartime experiment are still being concealed. Its name was Lazarus. What began as an attempt to preserve valuable intelligence identities evolved into something far darker: psychological conditioning powerful enough to give people memories, histories and personalities that were never their own. Deep beneath Whitehaven harbour, Rebecca discovers that Lazarus never truly died.
Someone has spent generations preserving its work. And now six compatible people have been brought together again. Rebecca. Rachel. Daniel. Mason. Lucy. Samuel. Six people. Six identities waiting to be assigned. Six go in. One returns. To stop Lazarus, Rebecca must uncover what really happened in 1944, who stole the Victoria Cross, and why her own family appears to have been connected to Whitehaven long before she was born.
But the deeper she goes, the more dangerous the question becomes. If memories can be manufactured, identities inherited and entire lives rewritten... How much of Rebecca Shaw truly belongs to Rebecca Shaw?And beneath the sea, something built eighty years ago is waiting to begin again. Whitehaven is Book 3 of The Rebecca Shaw Files, a fast-moving British conspiracy thriller combining wartime secrets, military intrigue, psychological experimentation, hidden underground facilities and a mystery stretching from the Second World War into the present day.
