Dimensions
128 x 22 x 198mm
On a visit to Paris in 1892, the American historian Henry Adams befriends a young woman who then vanishes, drawing him after her though the city's seamier reaches and into the corrupt heart of the Panama Canal scandal.
Zencey's bestselling novel combines history and fiction in a gripping mystery, and captures a world teetering on the brink of modernity.
A beautiful evocation of Paris in its industrial heyday, a boldly gripping mystery, and a superior historical novel.