Tobias Slaughter - ex Pinkerton, Communist writer of screenplays and now Private Investigator. Sounds like an interesting, and dangerous, man to know. In this masterful blend of historical fact and alternate reality, Roger Cottrell follows the life of Slaughter through three decades and two continents, mixing murders of union officials with the McCarthy witchhunts and the plot to destabilize the British Labour Goverment of the 1960s. In another world, this might have happened. In this world, much of it did.