It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an
SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler's henchmen on his trail.
He is carrying valuable cargo--the blueprint of the Führer's secret plan
to invade Russia. Stahl's man in the American embassy, the shy and
sheltered Calvin M. Cormack, is teamed with a boisterous MI5 officer,
Walter Stilton, to find the spy and bring him to safety. Their
investigation takes them across war-torn London, from the shelled-out
blocks to the ubiquitous pubs to the underground counterfeiting shops;
and in Cormack's case, into the arms of Kitty, his partner's
rambunctious daughter. As Cormack and Stilton close in on Stahl, bodies
begin turning up--and the duo realize they may not be the only ones in
pursuit of the spy. Someone, it seems, wants the German dead. When his
partner is suddenly murdered in the line of duty, Cormack must turn to
the ingenious devices of his lover Kitty's old flame--Sergeant Troy of
Scotland Yard. Together, they investigate the trail of murders and are
forced to ask themselves a horrifying question--are Cormack and his spy
being played by one of their own in the American embassy?
Brilliantly re-creating London in the time of ration tickets and
clothing coupons, Bluffing Mr. Churchill is a blistering page-turned
peopled by magnetic characters.