Two spies are sent to Manila, the capital of the future independent Philippines, and are not given a task: communication is interrupted. The only information that both possess: some new policy of Tokyo in relation to this American colony, which is about to gain independence. British intelligence agents do not know that this “new policy” will lead to a big war in just a few years, and now they are just saying goodbye to 1935 and entering 1936 and think that a lot depends on them. “Amalia and the Golden Age” is the third book about a British spy born in colonial-era Malaya. This is a novel that allows you to re-understand the two previous ones - “Amalia and the White Vision” and “Amalia and the Generalissimo”: these are books about how different the world was and the people who inhabited it, about the birth and death of empires, this is the cry of clarinets for the beautiful century between the two world wars.