Prince of The City

The Cat's Whiskers

The city is a battlefield without trenches—bombed-out streets, blackout curtains, and whispers of invasion riding the Atlantic winds. Foreign agents prowl the docks, black-market fortunes are made in smoke-filled back rooms, and every shadow hides a secret. Amid the chaos, Detective Vic Prince works the underbelly—a wise-cracking gumshoe with flat feet, asthma, and a past that binds him to the Mersey. His great-grandfather came on the last slave ship to dock in Liverpool, and that legacy still haunts the alleys he walks.

Prince’s life is a tightrope of danger and compromise. His girlfriend and her Chinese father face venomous prejudice. His best friend runs the city’s black market, and a bitter detective sergeant would love nothing more than to see Prince fall. Meanwhile, Nazi spies lurk in the fog, the docks burn under Luftwaffe bombs, and rumors of a land invasion gnaw at the city’s soul.

The Cat’s Whiskers

What starts as a hunt for a missing Persian blue cat spirals into a deadly game of deception. A beautiful widow pleads for help finding her vanished son, but the trail leads to a hired killer and a cache of stolen guns coveted by ruthless Russians. As bodies begin surfacing in the river—lifeless, with no cause of death—Prince is dragged into a conspiracy where every answer breeds more danger. In a city where survival means bending the rules, Vic must decide how far he’ll go before the war outside becomes a war within.