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­­Icelight brings Peter Cotton back to London in 1947. Against a background of black ice, blackouts and the black market, unsure who to trust - or even who is pulling the strings - Cotton, ever the outsider, must protect an atomic scientist caught up in a vicious homophobic witch-hunt, limit the damage caused by a bully-boy MP, rely on a rent-boy informer and, despite the murderous attentions of a couple of Glasgow razor boys, embark on a ruthless hunt of his own.

  ' Peter Cotton, the spook with the iciest temperament in fiction, pitches up   in the freezing winter of 1947 – making him the spy who keeps coming in from   the cold, then going back out into it a page later. Cotton’s third   appearance confirms Aly Monroe’s genius for creating such tension that,   while nothing much happens, you don’t want things to stop not happening.   She’s commercial writing’s rarest beast – a gloriously defiant individualist.' Jeremy Jehu, Daily Telegraph