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In Shadowland
First published 2016
Washington, 1925. Former Bureau of Investigation agent Seth Armitage is summoned by J. Edgar Hoover after the exhumation of Quentin Roosevelt’s grave in France reveals that the body buried there is not the president’s son. Haunted by his own First World War service, Armitage agrees to investigate what happened to Roosevelt and why the substitution remained hidden.
The search takes him through France and Germany, where intelligence operatives, assassins and political extremists compete to control the secret. Against the unsettled aftermath of the First World War and the early rise of Adolf Hitler’s movement, the novel turns a historical burial mystery into a transatlantic investigation of wartime memory, political ambition and the emergence of Nazism.
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