 First was Inspector Jan Argand ("The Euro-Killers", "Base Case", "Watching The Detectives").Then the "Joseph" of "Joseph" (Booker nomination 1979) makes his reappearance as Charlie Boylan in "A Very English Agent" and later as Eddie Bosham in "Birth of a Nation", as Rathbone follows the thread of events from the war in the Peninsula, through the world of German exiles taking refuge in early Victorian London and on to the early years of the modern USA.One of his possible descendants, Charlie Bosham, is the "hero" of "Nasty, Very".