'Deighton at his best' Evening Standard

Steve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumours he is still in the spying business. And suspicions that his fortune may be built on something nefarious; something he'd rather stayed secret. The Department are nervous, so Champion's oldest wartime ally is sent to the South of France to investigate. It's time to re-open the file on yesterday's spy, whatever the consequences.

'Tough, well-written and extremely readable' Daily Mail

A PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL

"Tough, well-written and extremely readable." - Daily Mail

"Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers." - Times Literary Supplement

"Splendid bluffs and lots of pleasing violence." - New Statesman