Chapter 1: Third Class Compartment


"Yes, he's one of us. Glad to see you, Jock", Mrs. Taylor said and handed him the ticket, "We've still got about ten minutes to the off."
Those boarding could see this was a non-smoking compartment; Taylor hated tobacco.
"I haven't got the money for First Class at the moment", Georgia said as she placed her bags in the luggage rack above the seats and then sat down by the left-side door opposite where they'd boarded, "I'll need it for the mission".
She then pulled a book out of the shopping bag, placing it on her lap face down, so the title wasn't visible.
Once the five of them had taken their seats, she turned to Andrei.
"Close the door please". Once this was done, Taylor looked around them.
"I've received word of a rather amazing and incredible discovery in Germany. This is going to sound frankly preposterous, but you'll need to hear me out."
She paused and opened the book, which was hollow and concealed some photographs and paperwork.
"One of my friends is a woman named Rebekka Winter. She's a mathematician from Germany and as she's a Jewess, she's not exactly popular with Mr. Hitler at the moment. She is trying to emigrate to Palestine or the United States.
What is of more immediate concern is her uncle, Jakob. Jakob is an electrical engineer by trade... and involved in the trade union movement. He was arrested a while back and disappeared into the concentration camp system. Now he's managed to get a message out to his niece."
She pulled out the letter.
"He's telling me that he's been shipped to somewhere near Breslau - that's in Silesia near the Polish and Czecho-Slovak border - where he's working to reverse engineer a death ray found on a crashed flying saucer."