Harris Stuyvesant traveled to London from New York, a semi-
disgraced U.S. agent for the Justice Department's Bureau of
Investigation. Hoover let him go on this quest to find a
bomber who Harris believed was an English Labour Party
leader. Although no one else believed the man, Richard
Bunsen, was guilty of the bombings, Harris convinced his
boss to let him try to get evidence. But Harris was
spending his own money and coming up with nothing that tied
Bunsen to the bombings.
And then he finally found someone in London's government
who could help him, although he couldn't bring himself to
trust the man. Aldous Carstairs had no obvious title,
clearly doing something within the government that was top
secret. But Carstairs said he could introduce Harris to a
man, Capt. Bennett Grey, who would get him near Bunsen.
But when Harris meets Grey, he finds a man devastated by
war injuries and touting a strange, paranormal talent.
Despite his distrust of Carstairs, Harris is immediately
drawn to Grey -- but doesn't really know if he can trust
either man.
Harris' career rests on finding this bomber, and he can't
go home without evidence. So he allies himself with Grey
and Carstairs, two men who have a contentious relationship
and may not even be able to help.
What a wonderful foray into British mysteries! Ms. King has
created a detective worthy of Holmes and yanks the reader
subtly and strongly into a Great Britain recreating itself
between the World Wars. An intelligent, complex,
beautifully written novel.
It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett
Grey’s life, leaving him with an excruciating sensitivity
to the potential of human violence, and making social
contact all but impossible. Once studied by British
intelligence for his unique abilities, Grey has withdrawn
from a rapidly changing world—until an American Bureau of
Investigation agent comes to investigate for himself
Grey’s potential as a weapon in a vicious new kind of
warfare. Agent Harris Stuyvesant desperately needs Grey’s
help entering a world where the rich and the radical exist
side by side—a heady mix of the powerful and the
celebrated, among whom lurks an enemy ready to strike a
deadly blow at democracy on both sides of the Atlantic.
Here, among a titled family whose servants dress in
whimsical costumes and whose daughter conducts an open
affair with a man who wants to bring down the government,
Stuyvesant finds himself dangerously seduced by one woman
and—even more dangerously—falling in love with another.
And as he sifts through secrets divulged and kept, he
uncovers the target of a horrifying conspiracy, and
wonders if he can trust his touchstone, Grey, to reveal
the most dangerous player of all ….
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