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Mr. Sabin, once the most dangerous intriguer in Europe, is living quietly in America with his wife Lucille when a summons reaches her at the Waldorf-Astoria from the secret society she once pledged herself to — and Sabin must fight it across two continents to keep her. Oppenheim kept his father's leather books for twenty years and wrote at night, then produced some hundred and fifteen novels of embassies, sleeping cars and men who are never quite what their passports say — the man who invented the modern thriller's furniture. Fifty-nine plates of harbour fog and lamplit waterfront by Whistler and Grimshaw run through the book like the mist and night in which Sabin's pursuit is conducted.
Mr. Sabin, once the most dangerous intriguer in Europe, is living quietly in America with his wife Lucille when a summons reaches her at the Waldorf-Astoria from the secret society she once pledged herself to — and Sabin must fight it across two continents to keep her. Oppenheim kept his father's...
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E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866–1946) was an English novelist who began his career while working in the family leather business in Leicester, publishing his first novel in 1887. He went on to write over one hundred novels of espionage and international intrigue, including The Malefactor, The Kingdom of the Blind, The Illustrious Prince, The Vanished Messenger, and The Yellow Crayon.
E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866–1946) was an English novelist who began his career while working in the family leather business in Leicester, publishing his first novel in 1887. He went on to write over one hundred novels of espionage and international intrigue, including The Malefactor, The Kingdom ...
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