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intelligence for his unique abilities, Grey has withdrawn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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