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Set mainly in the City of London, Hillgate's second novel drags us into a Grisham-like world of corruption and greed where anything can be achieved via the payment of cold hard cash. Hillgate's protagonist, Jonathan Berrie, is a mild-mannered, run-of-the-mill criminal barrister desperately trying to assuage his wife's yearning for her old banking job at the monolithian US investment house Silverman Bach. With her old boss, Master of the Universe Chas Mullion, literally rubbing his money in Jonathan's face, it's only a matter of time before Jonathan begins to crack. Jonathan's dream is to live...

A bilingual out-of-work British actor is offered a movie role in Germany just before World War Two. His Nazi employers have no idea that he's Jewish as well as British and when war breaks out his fate is inextricably linked to Hitler's favourite, the ice-queen of German cinema Eva Wendt as well as the SS, for whom, as a German movie star, he becomes their poster boy and propaganda puppet. Moving swiftly from pre-war London through Nazi Germany and spitting out its protagonist into post-war Hollywood, Hillgate's masterpiece is a swift-moving Bildungsroman, an erudite, concise allegory for the...