New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall in this gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions that begins with a visit to a recluse code-named âŚ
Once studied by British intelligence for his excruciating sensitivity to the worldâs turmoil, Bennett Grey has withdrawn from the worldâuntil an American Bureau of Investigation agent comes to assess Greyâs potential as a weapon in a new kind of warfare.
Agent Harris Stuyvesant needs Greyâs help to enter a realm where the rich and the radical exist side by sideâa heady mix of power, celebrity, and sexuality that conceals the free worldâs deadliest enemy. Soon Stuyvesant finds himself dangerously seduced by one woman andâeven more dangerouslyâfalling in love with another. As he sifts through secrets divulged and kept, he uncovers the target of a horrifying conspiracy, and wonders if he can trust anyone, even his touchstone.
âCinematic ⌠richly, even lushly, imagined.ââBooklist, starred review
New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall in this gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions that begins with a visit to a recluse code-named âŚ
Once studied by British intelligence for his excruciating sensitivity to the worldâs turmoil, Bennett Grey has withdrawn from the worldâuntil an American Bureau of Investigation agent comes to assess Greyâs potential as a weapon in a new kind of warfare.
Agent Harris Stuyvesant needs Greyâs help to enter a realm where the rich and the radical exist side by sideâa heady mix of power, celebrity, and sexuality that conceals the free worldâs deadliest enemy. Soon Stuyvesant finds himself dangerously seduced by one woman andâeven more dangerouslyâfalling in love with another. As he sifts through secrets divulged and kept, he uncovers the target of a horrifying conspiracy, and wonders if he can trust anyone, even his touchstone.
âCinematic ⌠richly, even lushly, imagined.ââBooklist, starred review