Not Hear the Darkness

'Tell me, are real murders more like films than books?'' No,' Lennon replied. 'They are like music.'1936. Jerome Bannigan is accused of trying to shoot King Edward. He is only given twelve months in prison. Detective sergeant David Lennon thinks there may be some truth in Bannigan's story of foreign agents and MI5 being involved. When he hears that another assassination is going to happen at Alexandra Palace when the King attends the opening night of television, he decides to be part of the programme. He enters a world where no one knows what the future will bring, and nothing is what it seems. As the event gets closer, Lennon uncovers a plot that could not only change the country, but the course of history. From Bannigan's trial at the Old Bailey, to the battle of Cable Street, Lennon's search for the truth means he must face his past, and his future. The people he meets along the way, from Wallis Simpson to the Jarrow marchers, make him question the nature of reality.This is also a book to make you question what is real. The text is layered with songs, films, and quotes which should be seemingly out of place in 1936. But language, like music, is a kaleidoscope that must go back to the beginning in order to reach the end. 'In the spy world not everything is black and white.''A member of the royal family marry a divorced American, over my dead body.'