Publisher's Synopsis
For young Simon growing up in Gloucestershire after the war, a kind gesture to an old tramp proves an astonishing quirk of fate. This is a novel of corruption and political treachery in the cut-throat world of high finance, of greed masquerading as duty and of ambition disguised as the pursuit of peace.;Other books in the "Treason in Arms" series are "The Killing Times", "The Dragon's Teeth", "A Kiss for the Enemy" and "The Seizure".