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      WILL CAINE lives in South London. He is a BAFTA award-winning and highly-acclaimed investigative film-maker and journalist.

      He has spent much of his life delving into the secrets of state. The Inquiry is Will Caine’s first thriller.

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      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019

      Copyright © Will Caine 2019

      Will Caine asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © March 2019 ISBN: 9780008325633

      In memory of

      my brother-in-law James

      and his son Miles.

      ‘There were one or two big ones. That’s how we kept a lid on it for so long. But we were never fully sure about them. How could we be? They were from a different world.’

       Ex-MI5 Officer, private conversation

      Contents

       Cover

       About the Author

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Chapter 33

       Acknowledgements

       About the Publisher

       2005

      The ping of a phone. She jerks awake, grabs it, brings it close to her face, checks the time.

      6.47 a.m.

      Odd. No one messages her this early.

      She lies back on her pillow, pulls up the duvet, clicks on ‘view’.

      Don’t use the buses or tubes in London today.

      She rubs sleep from her eyes. What the f— is this?

      She scrolls down. Just a number. No

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