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A powerful tale of honour- prejudice and the twentieth centurys most maltreated hero- by the acclaimed author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDERS WEB.June 8- 1954. Alan Turing- the visionary mathematician- is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow- dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case- Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident its a suicide- he is nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turings war record. What is more- Turings sexuality appears to be causing alarm among the intelligence services - could he have been blackmailed by Soviet spies? Stumbling across evidence of Turings genius- and sensing an escape from a narrow life- Corell soon becomes captivated by Turings brilliant and revolutionary work- and begins to dig deeper. But in the febrile atmosphere of the Cold War- loose cannons cannot be tolerated. As his innocent curiosity takes him far out of his depth- Corell realises he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge....