Publisher's Synopsis
In a world where England has agreed a peace with Nazi Germany, one small change can carry a huge cost... Following the Farthing Peace, England appears to have all but completed an inexorable descent into a fascist dictatorship. However, when a bomb explodes in a London suburb, resistance seems to be underway. The brilliant but tormented Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case and uncovers a conspiracy of peers and communists to murder the prime minister and his ally, Adolf Hitler...