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Precipice / Robert Harris.

By: Publication details: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2024.Description: vii, 450 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780735282148 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
Summary: Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley -- aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless -- is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as "The Coterie." She's also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer with Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a leak of top-secret documents. Suddenly, what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that could topple the British government -- and will alter the course of political history.
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Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves Fiction FIC HARR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001291617

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley -- aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless -- is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as "The Coterie." She's also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer with Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a leak of top-secret documents. Suddenly, what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that could topple the British government -- and will alter the course of political history.

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