num_pages: 316
description: 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 and may be the former king's bid to stage a coup dtat. 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.
language: English
title: Half a Crown
publisher: Tor Books