British troops are being deployed and the fear is that it will all slide inexorably into a conflict that will turn the cold war hot. In this fourth installment in the series, it is November 1956 and war is again a worry. We first met him during the Blitz, continued to follow him at the tail-end of the war, when buzz bombs were falling, then into bleak post-war austerity, when it appeared that the fruits of victory were to be fewer in number than had been hoped. Detective Inspector Ted Stratton's fictional police career has unfolded against the background of one of the most transformative periods in London's social history.
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