A sunken Nazi freighter, a vanished spy, and a code that should’ve stayed buried drag the sleuthing trio into a race against history—and a conspiracy rising from the deep.
A scuttled Nazi freighter. A vanished spy. A cipher that should never have seen daylight.
When physicist Srija Ray is handed a faded Enigma message linked to Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Joan Clarke, she thinks it’s a curiosity. Then MI6 golden boy Neil Basu disappears—and the same code points to the last known position of the SS Minden, a German ship scuttled in 1939 and rumoured to be carrying a fortune.
With only maverick PI Matthew Holmes at her side, Sri is dragged into a race that runs from the stacks of the British Library to the windswept Westman Islands of Iceland, and into the modern underworld where far-right networks hunt for old gold to fund new terror. Every answer the code yields raises the stakes: a dead charity that wasn’t, a crew with too many aliases, a treasure map hidden in plain sight—and a man Sri can’t afford to lose.
To find Neel and stop a wave of coordinated attacks, Sri must crack the uncrackable—before history’s darkest secrets bankroll tomorrow’s nightmare.
Perfect for fans of The Imitation Game, Robert Harris and Daniel Silva, The Scuttled Enigma blends codebreaking, cold seas and cold war legacies into a propulsive, heart-twisting spy thriller.
Themes: Enigma & Bletchley Park, Nazi treasure, Icelandic noir atmosphere, modern extremism, found family, will-they/won’t-they tension.
