Waiting for Sunrise
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy, is caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman—until she goes to the police to press charges of rape. Only a frenzied getaway plotted by two mysterious British diplomats saves him from trial. But after Lysander returns to a London on the cusp of war, the traumatic ordeal haunts him at every turn. The men who coordinated his escape recruit him to carry out a brutal murder. His lover shows up at a party, ready to resume their liaison. Suddenly plunged into the dangerous theater of wartime intelligence—a murky world of sex, scandal, and spies—L…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-187677-6
- EAN: 9780061876776
- Produktnummer: 13685182
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Gattung: Novel
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.0 cm 285 g
- Gewicht: 285
Über den Autor
William Boyd is also the author of A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys War Prize and short-listed for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunderstorms; and Waiting for Sunrise, among other books. He lives in London.
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