The beloved actor and screenwriterβs first novel, set during World War I, delicately and elegantly explores a most unusual romance. Itβs almost the end of the war and Paul Peachy, a young railway employee and amateur actor in Milwaukee, realizes his marriage is one-sided. He enlists, and ships off to France. Peachy instantly realizes how out of his depth he isβand never more so than when he is captured. Risking everything, Peachyβwho as a child of immigrants speaks Germanβmakes the reckless decision to impersonate one of the enemyβs most famous spies.
As the urbane and accomplished spy Harry Stroller, Peachy has access to a world he could never have known existedβa world of sumptuous living, world-weary men, and available women. But when one of those womenβAnnie, a young, beautiful and wary courtesanβturns out to be more than she seems, Peachyβs life is transformed forever.
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