The Winter Agent

Exhaustively researched, superbly realised, The Winter Agent is a superior SOE novel. Gareth Rubin really knows his stuff and it shows on every page * Howard Linskey * Smart, stylish, meticulously researched. Rich in loyalty and double dealing, captures perfectly the horror and heroism, delivered at a cracking pace * Sun * Races along, with plenty of surprises * Times * Brilliant. Blends meticulously researched history with a plot of double-crossing and deception * Best * Gripping . . . For someone with a keen interest in history, as well as a love of a well-written thriller, this book provides perfect escapism * Sun * Praise for Liberation Square * - * Far more than an intellectual exercise - it is a gripping story, with heart * Daily Telegraph, Best Thrillers of the Year * (A) richly imagined thriller . . . Tightly plotted, tense and set in a chillingly plausible world * Sunday Mirror * An authentic and chilling tale * Sun * An interesting take on the 'What if we'd lost World War II?' debate. A gripping and well-imagined yarn * Sun * Gripping * i * A tight and compelling thriller * SFX * A twisting murder mystery combined with a chillingly plausible alternative history of a divided Cold War London. Brilliant * Mason Cross, Richard and Judy bestselling author of The Samaritan * Rubin constructs a tantalising alternative world with 1950s Britain riven apart by its own version of the Berlin Wall - and all because the D-Day landings failed. Against this dystopian nightmare, the author overlays a murder mystery that's sure to appeal to fans of SS-GB, The Man in the High Castle, and Fatherland * David Young, CWA Dagger-winning author of Stasi Child * A gripping murder mystery set in an alternative 1950s Britain. Rubin's London, split between American and Soviet zones after a disastrous World War Two, is vividly realised and his story is elegantly constructed. One not to miss * William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier * In the great tradition of SS-GB and Fatherland, Rubin's alternative-1950s murder mystery takes an ingenious premise - the Americans and the Soviets have carved up Britain between them after rescuing the country from the Nazis - and makes it come alive through sheer storytelling skill * Jake Kerridge *