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Tommy Livermore, we know from the previous books, is Suzie's lover as well as her chief, but events are about to change.
John Gardner cleverly shows us the mind of the murderer as well as involving us in the hunt. We run simultaneously with the hare and the hounds. Deftly, he paints a background of privation, suffering and premature optimism, against which he sets his main themes - love, betrayal, and the search for truth. And although we might think we can guess the answers to the questions he has posed, ultimately he holds all the cards and most of them remain up his sleeve until the moment he chooses to reveal them - which is just as it should be for Gardner was once a stage magician, and he hasn't lost his sure touch. So we might think we know the identity of the murderer, but thinking and knowing are not always the same.
Gardner introduces a new character to the Reserve Squad, one Curry Shepherd who is employed by WOIL (War Office Intelligence Liaison). Shepherd is a "funny" - an Intelligence Agent - called to the party because there may be implications for the security services in the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Weaving. Before long, Shepherd has wrested Suzie Mountford from the embrace of both the Reserve Squad and Tommy Livermore. Suzie is promoted and transferred to WOIL to work alongside Shepherd, and her world becomes ever more precarious. Gardner masterfully depicts the tensions of the time, the build-up to operation Overlord (the Allied invasion of Europe), and the deadly nature of Suzie's new rôle.
For John Gardner, events have turned full circle. He has once again written an espionage-based novel, and a terrific one to add to previous volumes. But, more than that, with Troubled Midnight Gardner has returned to his first love in a completely different and totally unexpected fashion. The character of Suzie Mountford is based upon Patricia Mountford, Gardner's erstwhile fiancée, whom he had not seen for 50 years until last year when she came across a copy of the first novel in the series, Bottled Spider, and made contact. Happily, they are now together again.
Troubled Midnight is a well-crafted tale. It is the most conventional thus far of the four Suzie Mountford novels but, as always, both grips and entertains. Gardner was one of the triumvirate of peerless espionage novelists to emerge in the Sixties (the others being Deighton and Le Carré) and here he makes a most welcome return to the canon. I can scarcely wait for the next instalment.
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