**Heralding the arrival of a brilliant new heroine, *Mr. Churchill's Secretary* captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge--and the greatness that rose to meet it.** London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz loom
Bluffing Mr. Churchill
β Scribed by John Lawton
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc
- Year
- 2001;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 484 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Scotland Yard's Sergeant Troy returns in a WWII thriller praised as an absorbing blend of espionage and detection" (The Denver Post).
It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler's henchmen on his trail. Stahl's man in the American embassy, the shy and sheltered Calvin M. Cormack, is teamed with a boisterous MI5 officer, Walter Stilton, to find the spy and bring him to safety. Their investigation takes them across war-torn London, and in Cormack's case, into the arms of Kitty, his partner's rambunctious daughter. As Cormack and Stilton close in on Stahl, bodies begin turning upβand the duo realize they may not be the only ones in pursuit of the spy.
When his partner is suddenly murdered, Cormack must turn to the ingenious devices of his lover Kitty's old flameβSergeant Troy of Scotland Yard. Together, they investigate the trail of murders and come to a...
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