Just read the strangest book: In Secret Service by Mitch Silver. Basic idea is that Ian Fleming leaves an unpublished manuscript outing the Duke of Windsor as a traitor. The charming main character is a young female professor from Yale who inherits the manuscript and proceeds to dodge bad guys for the rest of the book.
It’s a fun book with lots of fake documentation. Villains old and new wander about Ireland and Yale University.
Discussed the book’s premise at length with my brother Chauncey who is a history buff. The stuff a Wallis is not as far fetched as the rest of the story according to him. Chauncey doesn’t think the Duke was a traitor because the French let him live in France after the War. The French hold grudges and would not allow a traitor to live there.
If you are willing to suspend disbelief, In Secret Service is a fun book. Rapid pace and intriguing characters make for an interesting first novel.
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