The Lubeck Diversion Book 5 of the intense Coulter Confessions series finds British Agent Edwin Coulter recuperating in Cyprus following the traumatic end to his mission in Donegal. Coulter struggles to cope as he is subjected to an intense debriefing and rehabilitaion programme. Just as Coulter starts to dream of a life outside the service, events take a dramatic turn that forces him back into action against enemies old and new. The novel carries the reader effortlessly from heat of Cyprus to the great Hanseatic city of Lubeck before coming to a dramatic climax in the Mosel and Rhine valleys.

Hidcote maintains his sharp dialogue and intensely drawn characters. The Lubeck Diversion introduces a swathe of vivid new characters and expands several familiar ones as the complex plot presents the hero with a deluge of new challenges.