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The Maze of Cadiz - signed, lined & dated

The Maze of Cadiz - signed, lined & dated

by Aly Monroe

Publisher John Murray

Genre: Crime

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About the book

Peter Cotton, a young Intelligence officer is sent to Spain in September 1944. The war in Europe is drawing to a close; formerly neutral Franco is edging closer to the Allies. Cotton has been sent to investigate the activities - and then, just as he arrives, reports of the death - of a British agent, May, who has spent much of the war in the remote outpost of Cadiz monitoring the Spanish smuggling of raw materials to aid the Axis war efforts, in strict violation of the terms of neutrality. Cotton is briefed in Madrid by Houghton, an agent working at the British Embassy. He also meets Houghton's partner, Marie, half-Jewish, who has helped many Jews escape through Gibraltar. They brief him on Franco, his paranoid fears of assassination, his capricious cruelty and his duplicity. Even as he gets on the train to begin the long, hot journey to Cadiz, it is clear that Cotton is being watched. And when he arrives in the rundown port, almost on the brink of starvation, it is clear that his visit has been expected. Reluctantly allied with the sinister Ramirez, the local police inspector, Cotton has to investigate May's death and what exactly led him to sever all contacts with his London controllers in the months leading up to his disappearance. But Cotton is not the only person with an interest in finding out what May had been doing. Cadiz is a hotbed of rumours and shifting political alliances in this, the final phase of the war and Cotton must navigate his way not only through local tensions but also through the uncertain loyalties of a bizarre expatriate community, including an unhelpful consul, a German woman married to a wealthy Spaniard and mysteriously marooned in the town, an apparently innocent Irish girl, and a strange British couple who chose to remain in Spain while the rest of Europe was engulfed in flames... What Cotton discovers amid the stifling heat and dust could just tilt the emerging balance of post-war power.

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About the Author

Aly Monroe

Aly Monroe is the author of the Peter Cotton series, set in the 1940s, which follows the development of a young intelligence agent. Her first novel, The Maze of Cadizwas published in 2008 and is set in Spain, where she spent a large part of her life working as a teacher and translator. The second in the series, Washington Shadow, was shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Award, and the third, Icelight, was awarded the 2012 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.


Aly also teaches oral presentation and writing courses (creative and academic), and is editor and writing consultant for academic research groups in the UK and in Spain.

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