June 1815. The people of London wait breathlessly for news as Napoleon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at Waterloo. Among them is Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, frustrated to find himself sidelined while recovering from a dangerous wound he recently received in Paris. When the mutilated corpse of Major Miles Sedgewick surfaces from the murky waters of the Thames, Sebastian is drawn into the murder investigation, which threatens one of his oldest and dearest friends, Irish surgeon Paul Gibson. Gibsons lover, Alexi Sauvage, was tricked into a bigamous marriage with the victim. But there are other women who may have wanted the cruel, faithless major dead. His mistress, his neglected wife, and their young governess whom he seduced all make for compelling suspects. Even more interesting to Sebastian is one of Sedgewicks fellow officers, a man who shared Sedgewicks macabre interest in both old English folklore and the occult. And then theres the valuable list of Londoners who once spied for Napoleon that Sedgewick was said to be transporting to Charles, Lord Jarvis, the Regents powerful cousin, who also happens to be Sebastians own fatherinlaw. The deeper Sebastian delves into Sedgewicks life, the more he learns about the Majors many secrets, and the list of people who could have wanted him dead grows even longer. Soon others connected to Sedgewick begin to die strange, brutal deaths, and more evidence emerges that links Alexi to the...

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc; Classification: FF; Weight: 384 g; Dimensions: 133 x 202 x 22

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