Jake Arnott is the author of six novels including the bestselling and critically acclaimed The Long Firm that was adapted as an award-winning BBC2 drama serial.
His latest novel is:

the house of rumour

find out more about the house of rumour here or visit the blog here

What connects Larry Zagorski – a young Californian writer of pulp fiction - with a British intelligence agent, the occultist Aleister Crowley, Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, a transsexual prostitute and Ian Fleming? The answer lies in 1941, when Britain was fighting for survival with every propaganda trick in the book, and in a private memoir that emerges decades later. But when Larry looks back on that pivotal year, he finds it hard to separate fact from disinformation, especially since the ensuing Cold War and Space Age seem more fantastic than anything he could have dreamed up

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