Madness of July Signed Ed (Hardcover)

It is a sweltering July in the mid-1970s, and for Will Flemyng, Foreign Office minister, the temperature is rising with each passing hour. A mysterious death has exposed secret passions in government, bringing on a political crisis that will draw him back into a familiar world of danger and deceit. For Flemyng has a past. He was trained as a spy for life behin enemy lines and now he's compelled to go back. In the course of one long weekend he must question all his loyalties: to his friends, his enemies, and to his own two brothers. Only then can he expose the truth in London and Washington. The debut novel by BBC Radio 4 presenter James Naughtie.