The Shameful Suicide of Winston Churchill

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The Shameful Suicide of Winston Churchill The Shameful Suicide of Winston Churchill

by Peter Millar

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Published: 2011

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The book begins in Downing Street but not as we know it:  the year is 1949, the Allied Powers’ advance on Moscow in the wake of Nazi defeat has failed.  Stalin’s tanks are rumbling through London and Winston Churchill emerges from his bunker, draws a revolver and decides upon the only course of action left to him. We switch to 1989.  England is divided along north-south lines between Soviet and American sectors, with London split in two.  Metropolitan People’s Police detective Harry Stark works in Scotland Yard with a view of Victory Embankment and the charred stump of Big Ben on the other side of the London Wall. Under Blackfriars Bridge a river border patrol finds a hanging corpse.  Stark is called to investigate.  A hard-working honest cop whose chief delight is a pint in The Rose (formerly ‘and Crown’) he has no truck with the sinister Department of Social Security political police. An American infiltrator tells him the...

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