BRITISH OCCUPATION ZONE, GERMANY, 1945: Former county cricketer Montgomery ‘Monty’ Bossitor finds himself in the ruins of post-war Germany tasked with selling off British Army surplus equipment. Tempted by offers from the criminal fraternity to sell the goods as scrap, Monty makes a fortune, but supplying one gang means double-crossing another and soon he finds he has the underworld, an assassin and Scotland Yard on his tail. In the burnt-out remains of his London house is found a charred corpse. But is it him, or Monty’s double?
Neil Sambrook has been a writer for nearly thirty years, spent mostly as a sports journalist, but of late has become a music critic and film reviewer, producing well-received essays for his acclaimed blog-site SAMTIMONIOUS.com. Monty’s Double is his debut novel.