Number Six

Caesar Valentine is Scotland Yard's nightmare: a criminal mastermind who operates above the law with elegance, wealth, and absolute impunity. He's stolen, killed, and escaped every trap the Yard has set. So Detective Hallet of the Criminal Investigation Bureau tries something different. He creates a ghost. An agent with no name, no record, no existence outside a single designation: Number Six. Their mission is simple and impossible infiltrate Valentine's inner circle and destroy him from within. But as Number Six slips deeper into a world of fog-shrouded London, corrupt aristocrats, and dangerous beauty, the game shifts. Who is hunting whom? Wallace builds suspense with the precision of a clockmaker and the speed of a film reel, making Number Six a masterclass in Golden Age crime fiction. The novel asks an unsettling question beneath its thrills: in a world of masks, can you still recognize your own face?