Publication

1988 - Penguin Books, New York, N.Y., U.S.A, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

125,250 words, Guess

Page Count

501 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100140106006
  • ISBN-139780140106008
  • Goodreads462114
  • Library of Congress Control Number87007272
  • OCLC Control Number16526334
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780140106008
  • Open LibraryOL2378797M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6057.O33 P3 1988
  • LCCCPB

Description

At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. What's more, Martin is being offered a job--to return to England and investigate the rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange deaths that still haunt his family.Martin is intrigued by Strafford's story, by the man's overwhelming love for a beautiful suffragette, by her inexplicable rejection of him and their love affair's political repercussions. But as he retraces Strafford's ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by chance; he was pushed. Suddenly Martin, who has not cared for many people in his life, cares desperately--about a man's mysterious death and a family's terrible secret, about a love beyond reckoning and betrayal beyond imagining. Most of all Martin cares because the story he is uncovering is not yet over--and among the men and women still caught in its web, Martin himself may be the most vulnerable of all....From the Trade Paperback edition.

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