Harris, Robert
Precipice : a novel Robert Harris - First U.S. edition. - New York, NY Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024 - vii, 450 pages 24 cm.
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Hutchinson Heinemann." -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-450).
"Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley--aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless--is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as "The Coterie." She's also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer with Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a leak of top-secret documents. Suddenly, what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that could topple the British government--and will alter the course of political history"--
9780063248052 0063248050
2024031166
World War--Great Britain--1914-1918--Fiction.
Socialites--England--London--Fiction.
Prime ministers--Great Britain--Fiction.
Intelligence officers--Great Britain--Fiction.
Security classification (Government documents)--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.
Letter writing--Fiction.
PR6058.A69147 / P74 2024
Har 2
Precipice : a novel Robert Harris - First U.S. edition. - New York, NY Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024 - vii, 450 pages 24 cm.
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Hutchinson Heinemann." -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-450).
"Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley--aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless--is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as "The Coterie." She's also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer with Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a leak of top-secret documents. Suddenly, what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that could topple the British government--and will alter the course of political history"--
9780063248052 0063248050
2024031166
World War--Great Britain--1914-1918--Fiction.
Socialites--England--London--Fiction.
Prime ministers--Great Britain--Fiction.
Intelligence officers--Great Britain--Fiction.
Security classification (Government documents)--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.
Letter writing--Fiction.
PR6058.A69147 / P74 2024
Har 2