THE BRAVEST HOUR

British intelligence agent Verity Kent and her husband, World War I hero Sidney, have survived countless dangers in foreign territory, but their mission in Ireland may prove the death of them.

In 1920, the fight for Irish independence grows more vicious every day. Although Verity has managed to locate her old friend and fellow spy Captain Alec Xavier in Dublin, he’s gone over to the Irish cause. Verity and Sidney are beginning to doubt Britain’s handling of the Irish problem, especially after they narrowly prevent a mass murder via poison gas planned by the treacherous Lord Ardmore to make the British Army look bad. Even as Ardmore evades responsibility for his treason, Verity is arrested and taken to Dublin Castle, where she’s questioned, threatened, and beaten. Verity continues to be bullied until Sidney arrives, and she’s released only when they reluctantly agree to help capture the rebel leader Mick Collins, with whom they’ve secretly helped counter Ardmore’s nefarious plots. They arrive home to be greeted by their staff and two old friends—Max, the Earl of Ryde, who anguishes over his father’s dealings with Ardmore, and George Bentnick, a mathematician and cryptologist who, working for the Secret Service, is unraveling the mysteries of the journal kept by one of Ardmore’s henchmen, which has already helped them uncover the mass-murder-by-phosgene plot. Not knowing who to trust at even the highest levels, Verity and Sidney must work with Alec and even Collins to try to take Ardmore down and help convince the British government that ruling with an iron fist will never subdue the rebels’ fight for freedom. Their loyalty in question and their lives in danger, they go all out to prove that Ardmore’s a traitor.

The last in Huber’s Irish trilogy is an exciting adventure chock-full of history lessons still relevant today.