First in a new series. Jack McColl is an international automobile salesman, travelling the world in search of markets for the luxury Maia he has in train. He's also a spy, moonlighting for the embryonic British intelligence services in the run-up to WW1.This is a fast-paced, old-style blockbuster with a terrific plot that takes McColl and his sweetheart, the beautiful American socialist Caitlin Hanley, from the brothels and opium dens of Shanghai to the wet backstreets of Dublin via San Francisco, as they work to foil a German plot that could expose the Empire's very weakest point.
