While reading a submitted manuscript - a novel of wartime London - for a publisher friend, Nick Hawthorne becomes mixed up in the death of TV personality Jack Skelton. With his friend a suspect, Nick teams up with a beautiful detective from Scotland Yard to solve the case and the trail leads to deadly danger in the Yorkshire Dales. Meanwhile, Shelton reads the manuscript - unfolding a tale of murder and betrayal while bombs drop on London. From a mysterious Whitehall mandarin he learns the significance of the story and its aftermath... and his life is changed for ever.
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