House of the Hanged
Mills, Mark
An elegant and arresting tale of patriotism, passion and murder, unfolding on the French Riviera, from the bestselling author of The Savage Garden. Le Rayol, France, July 1935: On the poor man`s end of the Riviera, where white-sand coves are strung out along the rocky coastline like pearls on a necklace, former British intelligence operative Tom Wyndham lives out his early retirement. A rag-tag community of authors, artists and exiles from all over Europe gather here for the summer months. On the surface, their dinners and beach parties may seem a world away from a continent gearing up for war, but it is 1935, a time of suspicion and mutual mistrust. And with good reason too, as Tom learns first-hand when his sun-kissed summer idyll is...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727691-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011