{"product_id":"the-man-in-the-brown-suit-9780750990646","title":"The Man in the Brown Suit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn 16 July 1936 a man in a brown suit stepped from the crowd on London's Constitution Hill and pointed a loaded revolver at King Edward VIII as he rode past. \u003c\/b\u003eThe monarch was moments from death. But MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch had known for three months an attack was planned: \u003ci\u003ethe man in the brown suit\u003c\/i\u003e himself had warned them. This mysterious man, lost to history, was George McMahon, a petty criminal with a record of involvement with the police. He was also an MI5 informant, providing intelligence on Italian and possibly German espionage in Britain. Dismissed by the rest of the world as a drunken loser and fantasist, he saw his life as an epic drama. Why did MI5 and the police fail to act? Was it a simple blunder on the part of the security services, or was something far more sinister involved? In this first full-length study of the threat to the life of Edward VIII, James Parris uses material from MI5 and police files at the National Archives to reach\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404593602903,"sku":"9780750990646","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780750990646.jpg?v=1730486930","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-man-in-the-brown-suit-9780750990646","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}