A Secret Service thriller of double-cross and double double-cross! As exciting as only Cheyney can make it.
The Second World War has just ended and the Secret Service discover that two lists of German war criminals have vanished. Peter Quayle is the head of the responsible department, and he is now tasked with the recovery of the lists. Instead of sharing the job with his usual agents he calls in a special group of people who operated behind enemy lines during the war.
Quayle’s second in command, Michael Frewin, appears too dapper to be an effective agent – but he is a cold blooded killer. Then there is Antoinette Brown, the ‘Practical Virgin’ – elegant, sexy, immune to men and a first-class brain. She recruits Aurora Francis and then the suave, debonair Anthony Keirnan – a former agent with hidden depths.
Once the team is complete, the novel follows twist with turn, rocketing ever faster towards a final, shocking conclusion.
Dark Wanton was originally published in 1948.
‘A Peter Cheyney novel always tingles with life’ Daily Sketch
About the author
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney was born in Whitechapel in the East End of London. After serving as a lieutenant during the First World War, he worked as a police reporter and freelance investigator until he found success with his first Lemmy Caution novel. In his lifetime Cheyney was a prolific and wildly successful author, selling, in 1946 alone, over 1.5 million copies of his books. His work was also enormously popular in France, and inspired Jean-Luc Godard’s character of the same name in his dystopian sci-fi film Alphaville. The master of British noir, in Lemmy Caution Peter Cheyney created the blueprint for the tough-talking, hard-drinking pulp fiction detective.
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