Berlin, 1919. Eastern Europe is in crisis, new nations forming and foundering in the ruins of fallen empires.

When the world’s largest aircraft, a giant Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIVa, crashes in the Silesian hills on a secret mission to Ukraine, former intelligence officer Alaric von Trelow is hired to investigate. What could have been a tragic accident soon reveals itself as something far more sinister. A plot to destroy not only a plane, but perhaps the existence of an entire nation.

Von Trelow is forced to navigate a world of ambitious engineers, shadowy financiers, and foreign agents, aided by friends, former comrades, and reluctant allies. What at first seems like a simple investigation into industrial sabotage will take von Trelow through the backstreets of Berlin, to Silesia on the verge of revolt, to the war-torn borders of Poland, and into the depths of the dungeons of Europe’s greatest fortress.

Still haunted by the tragic loss of his wife and the scars of four years' brutal warfare, von Trelow must balance the methodical discipline required of a detective with the darker instincts that made him one of the Guards' most formidable officers. As his investigation uncovers thieves, gamblers, conmen, blackmailers, spies, and killers, he will realise that the stakes are greater than even the fortune in newly-printed bank notes carried aboard the mighty planes. And what begins as sabotage could end up altering the shape of Europe and the entire world.

Set against the meticulously researched backdrop of Weimar Germany in 1919, Golden Eagles is a new standalone story in the Alaric von Trelow Mysteries series, combining the sophistication of classic detective fiction with the intensity of modern espionage thrillers: a gripping tale of honour, duty, and the price of survival in a world struggling to rebuild from the ashes of war.