Washington Shadow (Peter Cotton Series #2)

by Aly Monroe, Jason Freeman

Overview

Set in 1945, one year after The Maze of Cadiz, the second Peter Cotton book finds the agent in segregated D.C.
 
It is September 1945. Bankrupt and desperate, Britain sends John Maynard Keynes to boom town Washington, D.C. 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 girl from the U.S. 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 postwar intelligence for ever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719520938
Publisher:	Hodder
Publication date:	09/15/2010
Series:	Peter Cotton Series , #2
Edition description:	Canadian Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Aly Monroe is the author of The Maze of Cadiz, which was the first Peter Cotton novel, a series that begins during World War II and follows the process of decolonization and the aftermath of Empire. 

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

 "A cerebral, sedately paced novel . . . wonderfully atmospheric . . . Excellent."  —Guardian

"The deliberate anticlimax is a bold and broadly justified gesture of confidence in the power of her sense of time, place and character to charm the reader into a story told entirely on her own terms."  —Telegraph

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