St. Martin's Paperbacks
April 2019
On Sale: March 26, 2019
624 pages ISBN: 125030976X EAN: 9781250309761 Kindle: B079DV448K Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
Spenser Collins An unlikely Harvard prospect, smart and athletic,
strapped for cash, determined to succeed. Calls his
mother—who raised him on her own in Chicago—every week.
Dalton Winthrop A white-shoe legacy at Harvard, he's just the most recent
in a string of moneyed, privileged Winthrop men in
Cambridge. He's got the ease—and the deep knowledge—that
come from belonging.
These two find enough common ground to become friends,
cementing their bond when Spenser is "punched" to join the
Delphic Club, one of the most exclusive of Harvard's famous
all-male final clubs. Founded in the nineteenth century, the
Delphic has had titans of industry, Hollywood legends, heads
of state, and power brokers among its members.
Dalton Winthrop knows firsthand that the Delphic doesn't
offer memberships to just anyone. His great-uncle is one of
their oldest living members, and Dalton grew up on stories
of the club's rituals. But why is his uncle so cryptic about
the Ancient Nine, a shadowy group of alums whose identities
are unknown and whose power is absolute? They protect the
Delphic's darkest and oldest secrets—including what happened
to a student who sneaked into the club's stately brick
mansion in 1927 and was never seen again.
Dalton steers Spenser into deeper and deeper recesses of the
club, and beyond, to try to make sense of what they think
they may be seeing. But with each scrap of information they
get from an octogenarian Crimson graduate, a crumbling
newspaper in the library's archives, or one of Harvard's
most famous and heavily guarded historical books, a fresh
complication trips them up. The more the friends
investigate, the more questions they unearth, tangling the
story of the club, the disappearance, and the Ancient Nine,
until they realize their own lives are in danger.
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