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Set on the eve of the First World War, across oceans and continents, steamliners and cross-country trains, David Downings complex and thrilling new espionage novel takes us all the way back to the dawn of that most fascinating of 20th century charactersthe spy.It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great cityHong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New Yorkhe moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majestys Secret Service, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing but a shoestring budget and the very tenuous protection of a boss in far-away London.



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David Downing

David Downing is a professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.



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