Description

The fifth novel in Anne Perrys breathtakingly tense and exciting spy thriller series featuring young British photographer and secret agent Elena Standish set in the 1930s when the world was a place of increasing fear and uncertainty

As Hitlers influence spreads across Europe the future of Britain is at stake

It is late summer 1934 when retired MI6 agent John Reptons body is found near Wyndham Hall in the Cotswolds Repton was killed while investigating the Wyndham familys ties to fascist sympathisers and Elena Standish is assigned to discover if one of them resorted to murder

Meanwhile Elenas sister Margot is courting Lady Wyndhams brother and unaware that Elena is a spy Margot invites her to attend a house party at Wyndham Hall along with her colleague James Allenby who masquerades as her suitor As the atmosphere becomes increasingly tense Elena and Allenby begin to expose the allegiances of the people in the house But Elena is torn for she knows that revealing the truth will protect the nations security but could potentially destroy her sisters happiness

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