Trident

Fans of Jack Higgins’s The Eagle Has Landed may enjoy Moran’s suspenseful espionage thriller set during the summer of 1943. When Det. Insp. Daniel Gale inspects the naked body of an unidentified man in a shabby flat in London’s Mayfair district, the woman’s stocking wrapped around his neck suggests that he was murdered by the so-called Ligature Killer, who strangled three men over a period of 12 months before the start of WWII. Gale, however, feels something is not quite right. Then a commanding stranger bursts into the room, identifies himself as MI5, and declares that the dead man “just might be a bloody Nazi spy.” Two weeks earlier in Berlin, Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the German Abwehr, realizes that Prime Minister Winston Churchill will likely soon be sailing on the Queen Mary to America. Moran (Allegiance) knows how to keep readers on the edge of their seats (“As he turned the corner onto Jardine Road, he heard the squeal of cars arriving at the building that housed—he hoped—three dead men”). [em](BookLife) [/em]