TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leonard,Niall
TI  - M, king's bodyguard: a novel 
SN  - 9781524749057
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Melville, William,
KW  - Police
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Bodyguards
KW  - Attempted assassination
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Edward VII, 1901-1910
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - "Gathering intel, chasing leads, and cracking heads are all part of a day's work for Detective Chief Superintendent William Melville, bodyguard to Queen Victoria's son and heir to the throne, Prince Albert. But when the Queen dies, prompting most of Europe's royalty to converge on London for the funeral, Melville receives a tip about a planned attempt on the German Kaiser's life led by a mysterious anarchist known as Akushku. As Melville and his German counterpart, Gustav Steinhauer, race to uncover exactly what Akushku has planned, they find themselves drawn into a world of brutal violence, illicit romance, and bitter class warfare. And all the while, Akushku dances just out of reach, ensnaring rich and poor alike in his web. As the day of the funeral approaches, Melville realizes that far more than the Kaiser's life is at stake -- if he can't reach Akushku in time, he risks the destruction of the very realm he's sworn to protect"--
ER  -