Codename Nicolette

 In this deadly game of smoke and mirrors, a young woman is murdered. As the Scotland Yard investigation unfolds, no-one is ever quite what they seem. The victim’s connection to Winston Churchill’s secretive Double Cross Committee not only raises the stakes but rapidly spirals out of control. This was a swift clinical killing and had all the hallmarks of a professional assassination. With the nightly Blackout, crime was easy to conceal, and a direct hit to the girl’s home would have obliterated the forensic evidence. Chief Inspector Garvan’s instinct’s about Sarah’s murder are confirmed when he discovers she was a member of MI5’s shadowy Twenty Committee. He discovers British Intelligence believe Sarah was killed by one of their Abwehr double-agents on the express orders of German Intelligence. As a consequence, the Twenty Committee is on the brink of disaster. Their work is vital for the future conduct of WWII, and one rogue agent could bring the entire system crashing down like a pack of cards. The price and the stakes are high. As the investigation unfolds, it soon becomes a race against time to track down Sarah’s killer, before Britain’s counter-espionage battle against the Abwehr is lost. Failure could quite literally affect the final outcome of the war. 

 

 

 About Toby Oliver

Toby Oliver was born in London, and since 2007 moved to the countryside of West Sussex with his family in England. For many years he worked as an Administrator in Central London. His first novel Codename Nicolette is based upon the real-life secret work of MI5's Double Cross System, who was responsible for controlling turned Nazi agents based in Britain during World War II. His other works include Mission Lisbon - The Double Cross, Dead Man Walking - A Spy Amongst Us, and The Downing Street Plot - An Agent's Revenge. His latest book is Duty and Betrayal, a Cold War thriller set in the 1960s.

He decided to write books that he liked to read: and that was a mixture of crime and espionage stories, coupled with close family connections to the British Army, and his degree in politics, his books about WWI and the Cold War-era encompass all of the above. His latest novel To Catch A Spy And Traitor was published November 2020. 

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