Slough HouseA year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. What seems a gutless response from the government has pushed the Service's First Desk into mounting her own counter offensive but she's had to make a deal with the devil first. And given that the devil in question is arch manipulator Peter Judd, she could be about to lose control of everything she's

vegetable-focussed meals that are fully accessible for the home cook

Giuseppe Garibaldi was finally forced to abandon his defence of Rome

trailing whisky tumblers and reciting verbatim whole passages of classic literature

- a teensy wee crab comes tumbling into her world

Tracking down her murderer leads police inspector Inès Picaut back to 1940s France where the men and women of the Resistance were engaged in a desperate fight for survival against the Nazi invaders

who described the author as "one of our country's greatest jury advocates

but there are other events on the march that Harry is not expecting

what is gained and what has stayed the same

There's only one way to find out

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which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union

Dante's bones have been stolen