From the streets of Kent to the back alleys of Bombay and the shadow fronts of a vanishing empire, Edward Merritt's gift was always the same: he saw patterns where others saw only noise. Rising from police cadet to intelligence officer, Merritt cracked codes, tracked German merchants, and pursued conspiracies through riots, markets, and clubs. But his victories brought scandal as the Empire unraveled, and by 1946 he was recalled in silence, his files sealed, his name forgotten. Back in post-war Britain, Merritt found no homecoming: rationing, rubble, restless youth, and immigrant streets where the Empire he had tried to control now walked beside him. Fading into obscurity, he lived to see one final vindication - the Berlin Airlift, aircraft descending every three minutes in the flawless rhythm of his own discarded methods. Bombay and the Berlin Minutes is a haunting historical spy novel about ambition, empire, and the patterns that outlive the men who draw them.