description: Spring 1941. In Germany, after ten years spying for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl disappears during a Berlin air raid. The Germans think he's dead. The British know he's not. But where is he? MI6 convince US Intelligence that Stahl will head for London, and so Captain Cal Cormack, a shy American 'aristocrat', is teamed with Chief Inspector Stilton of Stepney, fat, fifty, and convivial, and between them they scour London, a city awash with spivs and refugees. But then things start to go terribly wrong and, ditched by MI6 and disowned by his embassy, Cal is introduced to his one last hope - Sgt Troy of Scotland Yard...
language: English
title: Riptide
titlecomplete: Riptide
characters: Gordon McKendrick, Walter Stilton, Max Aitken., Dennis Crawley, Larissa Tosca, Deke Shaeffer, Stan Onions, Cash Wally, Reggie Ruthven-Greene, Jaroslav Hudczek, Ladislaw Kolankiewicz, Frank Reininger, Lawrence Forsyte, Jeroen Smulders, Kitty Stilton, Frederick Troy, Inspector Drew, Charles Leigh-Hunt, Anna Pakenham, General Gelbroaster, ‘Fish Wally’, George Bonham, Cal Cormack, Orlando Thesiger, CI Enoch Nailer, Peter Dixon, Wolfgang Stahl, Peter Robinson
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, World War II, Crime, Espionage, Detective, War, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery
ratings_count: 1041
places: London, England
series: Inspector Troy
publisher: Orion