MAVERICKS

Wildly exciting KATE ADIE Thoroughly gripping An action packed tale JUSTIN MAROZZI THE TIMES Beautifully written LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES Stimulating entertaining and instructive JULIAN EVANS DAILY TELEGRAPH The forgotten story of a group of British mavericks who took on an impossible mission and survived against all odds to tell their extraordinary tales 1918 The First World War is drawing to a close and regimes are collapsing across Europe Amid the chaos British officials plot a daring campaign to send an unlikely band of soldiers diplomats and spies to the volatile shores of the Caspian Sea Their mission stop the advancing Turks hold back the Bolsheviks and secure the vital supply of oil from Baku Drawing on personal diaries memoirs and once secret government archives Mavericks is a page turning story of boldness and intrigue set in a forgotten corner of the Great War where rules were made to be broken