Whitehall After Dark is published by Austin Macauley in the UK, in three formats: ebook, Paperback, Hardback. It is also released in the USA and Australia. Described in reviews as riveting, a page turner, and a political/espionage thriller with a difference.
Plot summary:
The book follows the life and activities of a (fictional) loyal UK covert agent working for the government and how in the end he became an enemy of the state he served so well. It starts in 1983 and the story is then quickly transferred to the present via a brief stop in 2007. The book touches on the subject of where the UK loyalty and allegiance lies. Europe or the USA? Is the USA manipulating the UK Prime Minister?
It also raises the topical issue of whether it was right or wrong for the UK to follow the USA into war against Saddam’s Iraq – and therefore unleashing the terror that we are now experiencing in Europe and beyond and asks why did Britain blindly believe the USA excuse for invading Iraq that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction – which was not the case. It is a fast moving political thriller taking place in various countries as well as in London’s Whitehall and implies that the UK foreign policy is not really run by the government but by the country’s secret services – the SIS, operating after dark from secret rooms in and around Whitehall. It is tense, with many twists and turns but also humorous at times.