Dimensions
129 x 198 x 18mm
London, 1938. With a world war on the horizon, a shocking crime begins to unfold - and one reporter knows too much to be allowed to survive. An absorbing and gripping mystery from the critically acclaimed author of SNOW HILL. November, 1938. Europe is teetering on the edge of a cataclysmic war, Anti-Semitic sentiment is on the rise in Britain, and a serial killer is at work in London. Johnny Steadman, investigative journalist, is called to the scene of a gruesome murder - a man has been tied to his bed, emasculated and left to bleed out. This is the second such killing, but there are more to come with seemingly nothing to connect the different victims. At the same time he is asked by his editor to interview Leo Adler, an influential financier and next Mayor of London, who has been subjected to an Anti-Semitic attack. Are the two cases connected? And how far is the unstable political situation across Europe behind the spiraling violence in London's Square Mile? Johnny uncovers a terrible history of suffering in Nazi Germany and an equally terrible story of profiteering... but will he live to tell the tale? Powerful financial interests and a shady fascist organization will do whatever it takes to shut him up.
