The Summer of 66

by Dan Wheatcroft

In what could be considered a prequel to the Leveller Trilogy, Special Branch Detective Constable John Gallagher is seconded to a British Home Office Statistical Unit for what he considers a minor violation of trust. He's not well pleased; he knows nothing of statistics and had been hoping for a much less boring end to his year. The summer of 1966 is revered by all England, to this very day, as the year the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy came back to the home of football but behind all the...