Nick Bellamy is broke, charming, and permanently half-drunk. He owes money to half the bars in Mayfair and answers to nobody — except, perhaps, to Carola, the woman who is losing patience with him fast.

When Philip Vanning of the Government’s ‘C’ Bureau hands Bellamy a wad of cash and a secret assignment — find the spy leaking propaganda to the enemy — everyone assumes it’s a joke. Bellamy is the last man you’d trust with a secret.

That, of course, is exactly the point.

Set against the fog and blackouts of wartime London, Another Little Drink is Cheyney at his sharpest: a glittering, fast-moving thriller where nothing is what it seems, every woman has an angle, and the man everyone writes off as a useless drunk might just be the most dangerous man in the room. 

During the short period of fifteen years Peter Cheyney managed to write more than thirty books. Resulting in sales which run into millions of copies.
Cheyney’s stories are about the grim, the slick, the seductive and the amusing – just true to life as Cheyney knew it.