Nightshade

by Reg Gadney

The possibility that Churchill had possessed a prior knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor leads SIS officer John Mahon into an investigation into his father's death and into a confrontation with a deadly secret that could destroy Anglo-American relations

233 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Reginald Bernard John Gadney (20 January 1941 – 1 May 2018) was a painter, thriller-writer and an occasional screenwriter or screenplay adaptor. Gadney was also an officer in the Coldstream Guards in the 1960s and later wrote the biopic screenplay Goldeneye (about author Ian Fleming) which was filmed in 1989, directed by Don Boyd with Charles Dance playing Ian Fleming. Gadney cameoed as the real-life James Bond, the man who lent his name to Fleming's eponymous spy.
Gadney was married twice; firstly to Annette Kobak and secondly to the restaurant critic Fay Maschler, whom he met at a party in 1992. He had two children from his first marriage and three step children from his marriage to Maschler.