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On May 7, 1915, a German submarine torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a British ocean liner, eleven miles off the southern coast of Ireland, causing the deaths of 1,200 civilian passengers, including a hundred children. As 128 Americans were among the dead, this horrifying war crime caused a storm of protest in the United States, and it began a chain of events that plunged the U.S. into World War I. In this gripping novel, an insurance investigator and his fiancée help a murdered longshoreman’s widow who’s been unjustly denied her husband’s life insurance. The young couple find themselves in possession of documents detailing the closely guarded secret of the Lusitania’s cargo, and are soon threatened by German and British spies, Irish republicans, a rogue socialist, New York’s waterfront mafia, and the newly- formed FBI, all wanting to use the suppressed material to further their own agendas.