It’s the height of summer 1923. At a ball in Sussex, Jack Haldean, former Royal Flying Corps pilot, investigates an apparent suicide, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian revolutionaries become involved in the aff air. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnapping, torture and murder, Jack will face an agonizing choice.




Dolores Gordon-Smith is the author of A Fete Worse than Death, the first in
the Jack Haldean series. She graduated from Surrey University in 1981. She lives
in Cheshire, UK.

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