This turns out to be quite a lively version of a gangster episode that had the East End of London on its ears early in 1911. It's a re-vamp [from a story by Jimmy Sangster] of the celebrated incident ...

TURN OFF the Mile End Road in London’s East End, walk a hundred metres and go back in time. It is January 3rd 1911, and in place of the block of flats with black railings stands a redbrick Victorian ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Three London policemen are shot dead by anarchist burglars in December 1910. Two weeks later, two of the anarchists are tracked down but hold the police at bay with their Mausers, while Winston ...