Riptide

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"Spring 1941. England - alone for a year since Dunkirk. An ally without allies. Russia - on the brink of war. But it doesn't know it yet. America - struggling to stay neutral. And Germany...? After ten years spying for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl, deputy to Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, disappears during a Berlin air raid ... the Germans think he's dead, the British know he's not ... but where is he?" "Mi6 convinces US Intelligence that Stahl will head for London, and so recruit England's first reluctaut ally into a 'plain clothes partnership'." "Capt. Calvin M. Cormack III - 29, an American 'aristocrat', tall, skinny, shy, is teamed with Chief Inspector Stilton of Stepney, fat, fifty, convivial, a man known to eat two breakfasts - and between them they scour the streets of London, a city awash with spivs and refugees." "England is another country - indeed, for Cal it might be another planet. The language, the customs and the people baffle him. An innocent abroad, he tumbles headlong into England, falls for Stiltons precocious daughter Kitty - and, when it all goes pear-shaped - ditched by Mi6, disowned by his embassy, sinking into England - what could be more natural than that Kitty should introduce him to his last hope, her last boyfriend ..." "Sgt. Troy, of Scotland Yard - 25, short, saturnine and ... silent."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved