Washington Shadow - Softcover

Monroe, Aly

3.91

55 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848540353 ISBN 13: 9781848540354

Publisher: John Murray, 2009

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September 1945. Bankrupt and desperate, Britain sends John Maynard Keynes to boom town Washington to beg for a loan. Under cover of the backup team, agent Peter Cotton is sent to investigate the break-up of America's wartime intelligence agency.

Cotton finds himself caught up in a world of shadows involving an extraordinarily attractive girl from the US State Department, a Soviet ex-tank commander claiming to be his opposite number, a contrarian African academic, an ambitious, quick-tempered boss from the world of misinformation . . . and an Anglo-American conspiracy that will change the world of post-war intelligence for ever.

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Review:

Praise for the first in the Cotton series, The Maze of Cadiz: (---)

'A splendid debut mystery' (The Times)

'Clever and fascinating' (Guardian)

'An impressive novel with an extraordinary, dream-like atmosphere . . . The next can't come too soon' (Financial Times)

'The deliberate anticlimax is a bold and broadly justified gesture of confidence in the power of her sense of time, place and character to charm the reader into a story told entirely on her own terms' (Daily Telegraph)

'Plenty of room for future development' (TLS)

'Stands out from the current glut of period thrillers' (Mail on Sunday)

'A brilliantly readable book full of human history and entertaining anecdotes' (Lancashire Evening Post)

Book Description:

The war is over. The game has begun.

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