December 1938. Moscow. Josef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a
happy man. He asks his henchman, Beria, to track it down.
September 1940. London. Above the city the Battle of Britain rages, and
the bombs rain down. On the streets below, DCI Frank Merlin and his
officers investigate the sudden disappearance of Polish RAF pilot Ziggy
Kilinski while also battling an epidemic of looting unleashed by the
chaos and destruction of the Blitz.
Kilinski's fellow pilots, a disgraced Cambridge don, Stalin's spies in
London, members of the Polish government in exile and a ruthless Russian
gangster are amongst those caught up in Merlin's enquiries. Sweeping
from Stalin's Russia to Civil War Spain, from Aztec Mexico to pre-war
Poland, and from Hitler's Berlin to Churchill's London, a compelling
story of treasure, grand larceny, treachery, torture and murder unfolds.
Eventually, as Hitler reluctantly accepts that the defiance of the RAF
has destroyed his chances of invasion for the moment, a violent
shoot-out in Hampstead leads Merlin to the final truth...and Stalin to
his gold.
Stalin's Gold is the latest in the Frank Merlin Series and follows on
from Princes Gate.
