And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever.Ĭivil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House.ĭefiance, though, is growing. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.ġ952.

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