Book 5 in the DCI Frank Merlin series
Summer, 1942.
The Second World War rages on but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side.
In a bombed-out London teeming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two?
Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle .
Praise for the DCI Frank Merlin series:
'Masterly . . . compelling . . . one of the most attractive characters to emerge in recent detective-thriller fiction'' Andrew Roberts, Sunday Times bestselling author
'Against the backdrop of Blitz-hit London, this stylish thriller sees Scotland Yard's Frank Merlin investigate a tangled conspiracy' Sunday Mirror
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