In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement
between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's
upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried 'undesirables'
across the Channel to board the cattle cars headed east.
Peter Carmichael is commander of the Watch, Britain's distinctly
British secret police. It's his job to warn the Prime Minister of
treason, to arrest plotters, and to discover Jews. The midnight knock
of a Watchman is the most dreaded sound in the realm.
Now, in 1960, a global peace conference is convening in London, where
Britain, Germany, and Japan will oversee the final partition of the
world. Hitler is once again on British soil. So is the long exiled Duke
of Windsor – and the rising gangs of 'British Power' streetfighters,
who consider the Government 'soft,' may be the former king's bid to
stage a coup d'état.
Amidst all this, two of the most unlikely persons in the realm will
join forces to oppose the fascists: a debutante whose greatest worry
until now has been where to find the right string of pearls, and the
Watch Commander himself.
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