The Stars are Dark is one of Peter Cheyney’s most outstanding novels. Beneath the obvious facade of the war strange and deadly things occur. In this book Cheyney draws aside the curtain to show us, in his own incomparable manner, the inside lives of those people who wear no uniform and win no medals. The lives of men and women who have all to lose and nothing to gain; whose business takes them into strange paths to destinations from which there is often no return.

The Stars are Dark will thrill you with its fascinating quality and carry you from a dramatic beginning to the last tense scene. The story moves at terrific speed, supercharged with that peculiar excitement that Cheyney weaves into all his novels; peopled with characters that are almost terrifyingly convincing; imbued with the “atmosphere” that characterises all his work.