Set in 1945, one year after The Maze of Cadiz, the second Peter Cotton book finds the agent in segregated D.C.
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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.