The visitor was out of place in Mayfair: a central European and a frightened man. Frightened with reason…

What he could tell Department Z was little enough – but enough to sign his own death-warrant. Then shortly afterwards there was an assassination in the obscure European principality. There were other deaths, until finally the British Foreign Secretary was shot down in his own office.

Menace (1938) is the eleventh in John Creasey’s Department Z series an will be available for purchase in June.