Dimensions
152 x 232 x 27mm
Sgt Troy's first case.
Spring 1941. England - alone for a year since Dunkirk. An ally without allies. Russia - on the brink of war. But it doesn't know it yet. America - struggling to stay neutral. And Germany . . .? After ten years spying for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl, deputy to Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, disappears during a Berlin air raid . . . the Germans think he's dead, the British know he's not . . . but where is he?
MI6 convinces US intelligence that Stahl will head for London, and so recruit England's first reluctant ally into a "plain clothes partnership".
Capt Calvin M Cormack III - 29, an American "aristocrat", tall, skinny, shy, is teamed with Chief Inspector Stilton of Stepney, fat, fifty, convival, a man known to eat two breakfasts - and between them they scour the streets of London, a city awash with spivs and refugees.
England is another country - indeed, for Cal it might be another planet. The language, the customs and the people baffle him. An innocent abroad, he tumbles headlong into England, falls for Stilton's precocious daughter Kitty - and, when it all goes pear-shaped - ditched by MI6, disowned by his embassy, sinking into England - what could be more natural than that Kitty should introduce him to his last hope, her last boyfriend . . .
Sgt Troy of Scotland Yard - 25, short, saturnine and . . . silent.
