Washington Shadow: Peter Cotton Thriller 2: The second 'addictive' spy thriller

by Aly Monroe

Overview

Book 2 in the Peter Cotton spy thriller series, for fans of John le Carré and Robert Harris.

'Addictive' Sunday Telegraph

'Monroe provides terrific and convincing historical atmosphere; I am delighted that she is writing more Peter Cotton novels' The Times

The war is over. The game has begun.

September 1945. Bankrupt and desperate, Britain sends John Maynard Keynes to boom town Washington to beg for a loan. Under cover of the backup team, agent Peter Cotton is sent to investigate the break-up of America's wartime intelligence agency.

Cotton finds himself caught up in a world of shadows involving an extraordinarily attractive woman from the US State Department, a Soviet ex-tank commander claiming to be his opposite number, a contrarian African academic, an ambitious, quick-tempered boss from the world of misinformation . . . and an Anglo-American conspiracy that will change the world of post-war intelligence for ever.

The Peter Cotton spy thriller series:
Book 1: The Maze of Cadiz
Book 2: Washington Shadow
Book 3: Icelight
Book 2: Black Bear
Short story: Redeemable

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848544413
Publisher:	Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.
Publication date:	10/28/2010
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Aly Monroe was born and educated in England. Trained in linguistics, she has lived abroad - mostly in Spain - and speaks several languages. She is married and has three children. Washington Shadow is the second book in the Peter Cotton series, The first, Maze of Cadiz, and the third, Icelight, shortlisted for the 2012 Ellis Peters Award for Historical Fiction, are also available from John Murray. You can find out more about Peter Cotton and Aly Monroe via her website, www.alymonroe.com or at www.johnmurray.co.uk, through her official facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/Monroe.Aly, and you can follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/monroe_aly.
Aly Monroe was born and educated in England. Trained in linguistics, she has lived abroad - mostly in Spain - and speaks several languages. She is married and has three children. The first three books in the Peter Cotton series, Maze of Cadiz and Washington Shadow and Icelight (winner of the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award) are also available from Hodder & Stoughton. You can find out more about Peter Cotton and Aly Monroe via her website, www.alymonroe.com or at www.hodder.co.uk, through her official facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/Monroe.Aly, and you can follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/monroe_aly.

Editorial Reviews

Set in the fall of 1945, Monroe's unsplashy but compelling second novel featuring British agent Peter Cotton (after The Maze of Cadiz) will remind many of le Carré. Cotton's masters dispatch him to Washington, D.C., with economist John Maynard Keynes, who's charged with persuading President Truman to help England deal with the tremendous financial cost of WWII. That mission coincides with a radical reworking of the American spy network that eliminates the OSS and divvies up its duties between the State and War departments. Cotton's real assignment is to keep an eye on the State Department's role in the new order. While some espionage fiction readers might prefer more action, Monroe's understated approach is more consonant with the reality of covert work, and her hero is a refreshing change from the usual two-fisted, bed-hopping stereotype. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly