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 he
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.
