A truly gripping, hugely atmospheric and vastly complicated spy thriller

Daily Mirror

A book which immerses the reader in the coffee-house capital to create a highly accomplished romantic thriller

- Christian House, Independent on Sunday

A pacy and involving page-turner that explores the myriad ways we lie to ourselves and others

Daily Mail

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Superb; hand-on-heart, may-the-Lord-strike-me-down-terrific

- Charles Cumming, Spectator

An intricately plotted world of spies, lies and the double cross

Sunday Telegraph

A gleeful celebration of storytelling - sly,clever, frequently hilarious,always involving ... the literary event of the year

The Times

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life...
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A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms
A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms
The Sunday Times bestseller

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408830390
Publisert
2013-01-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
305 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
448

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

William Boyd is the author of ten novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection, and most recently, the bestselling Ordinary Thunderstorms.