For the first time in paperback, the culminating novel of Hugo and
Nebula Award-winner Jo Walton's stunning Small Change
trilogy.
Following the award-winning "Farthing" and its sequel" Ha'penny,"
"Half a Crown" is an amazing alternate-world noir tale of
resistance to encroaching fascism, from the author of "Among
Others."
In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a
rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and
banquets of Britain's upper class never faltered, while British
ships ferried "undesirables" across the Channel to board the cattle
cars headed east.
Peter Carmichael is commander of the Watch, Britain's distinctly
British secret police. It's his job to warn the Prime Minister of
treason, to arrest plotters, to discover Jews. The midnight knock
of a Watchman is the most dreaded sound in the realm.
Now, in 1960, a global peace conference is convening in London,
where Britain, Germany, and Japan will oversee the final partition
of the world. Hitler is once again on British soil. So is the
long-exiled Duke of Windsor--and the rising gangs of "British
Power" streetfighters, who consider the Government "soft," may be
the former king's bid to stage a coup d'etat.
Amidst all this, two of the most unlikely persons in the realm will
join forces to oppose the fascists: a debutante whose greatest
worry until now has been where to find the right string of pearls,
and the Watch Commander himself.
"A literary Guernica--a top-notch thriller set in a terrified
Britain that is all too willing to trade freedom for security, and
which gets neither." --Cory Doctorow on "Ha'penny"
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