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Harper
April 2012
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Featuring: Lysander Rief
368 pages
ISBN: 0061876763
EAN: 9780061876769
Kindle: B005Z0PY4W
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Fiction
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town
seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual
nature, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a
beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to
press charges of rape, however, he is stunned, and his few
months of passion come to an abrupt end. Only a carefully
plotted escape—with the help of two mysterious British
diplomats—saves him from trial. But the frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that
steadily dismantles Lysander's life as he knows it. He
returns to a London on the cusp of war, hoping to win back
his onetime fiancÉe and banish from memory his traumatic
ordeals abroad, but Vienna haunts him at every turn. The men
who helped coordinate his escape recruit him to carry out
the brutal murder of a complete stranger. His lover from
Vienna shows up nonchalantly at a party, ready to resume
their liaison. Unable to live an ordinary existence, he is
plunged into the dangerous theater of wartime intelligence—a
world of sex, scandal, and spies, where lines of truth and
deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now
discover the key to a secret code that is threatening
Britain's safety, and use all his skills to keep this murky
world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner
of his life. Moving from Vienna to London's West End, from the
battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for
Sunrise is a mesmerizing journey into the human psyche, a
beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a
plot-twisting thriller, and a literary tour de force.
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