Icelight
Peter Cotton Thriller 3: Gripping espionage at its best
Fiction & Literature, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense
| Author: | Aly Monroe | ISBN: | 9781848544918 |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton | Publication: | October 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton | Language: | English |
| Author: | Aly Monroe |
| ISBN: | 9781848544918 |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Publication: | October 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Language: | English |
Book 3 in the Peter Cotton spy thriller series, for fans of John le Carré and Robert Harris.
Winner of the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award
Praise for Aly Monroe
'Splendid . . .Monroe provides terrific and convincing historical atmosphere' The Times
'Skilful and evocative . . . [a] stylish and impressive debut' The Economist
- Threadbare London endures the bleakest, coldest winter for decades. Food rationing is worse than during the war. Coal supplies run out. The Thames freezes over.
Against a background of black ice, blackouts and the black market, agent Peter Cotton is seconded to Operation Sea-snake. MI5 is in the grip of civil war; MI6 is riddled with traitors. Unsure who to trust - or even who is pulling the strings - Cotton, ever the outsider, must protect an atomic scientist caught up in a vicious homophobic witch-hunt, limit the damage caused by a bully-boy MP, rely on a rent-boy informer and, despite the murderous attentions of a couple of Glasgow razor boys, embark on a ruthless hunt of his own.
The Peter Cotton spy thriller series:
Book 1: The Maze of Cadiz
Book 2: Washington Shadow
Book 3: Icelight
Book 2: Black Bear
Short story: Redeemable
Book 3 in the Peter Cotton spy thriller series, for fans of John le Carré and Robert Harris.
Winner of the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award
Praise for Aly Monroe
'Splendid . . .Monroe provides terrific and convincing historical atmosphere' The Times
'Skilful and evocative . . . [a] stylish and impressive debut' The Economist
- Threadbare London endures the bleakest, coldest winter for decades. Food rationing is worse than during the war. Coal supplies run out. The Thames freezes over.
Against a background of black ice, blackouts and the black market, agent Peter Cotton is seconded to Operation Sea-snake. MI5 is in the grip of civil war; MI6 is riddled with traitors. Unsure who to trust - or even who is pulling the strings - Cotton, ever the outsider, must protect an atomic scientist caught up in a vicious homophobic witch-hunt, limit the damage caused by a bully-boy MP, rely on a rent-boy informer and, despite the murderous attentions of a couple of Glasgow razor boys, embark on a ruthless hunt of his own.
The Peter Cotton spy thriller series:
Book 1: The Maze of Cadiz
Book 2: Washington Shadow
Book 3: Icelight
Book 2: Black Bear
Short story: Redeemable
