Jake Arnott is probably best known for his
crime novels, in particularly The Long
Firm, his debut novel from 1999.
With The House of Rumour
(Sceptre £17.99) he’s turned his hand to fantasy – alternate-history fiction;
and it looks very intriguing:
“What connects Larry Zagorski – a young
Californian writer of pulp fiction – with a British intelligence agent, the
occultist Aleister Crowley, Hitler’s deputy Rudulf Hess, a transsexual
prostitute and Ian Fleming? The answer lies in 1941, when Britain was fighting
for survival … and in a private memoir that emerges decades later. But when
Larry looks back at the pivotal year, he finds it hard to separate fact from
disinformation…
Here is a tale of spies, SF writers, cult
leaders, rocket scientists, astronauts, UFO spotters, magicians, film makers,
rock stars, actors, adulterers and unrequited lovers…”
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