Cyr is more than a match for him or any opponent: He’s strong, clever, a gifted sleuth, blessed with supernaturally acute hearing and eyesight, and dangerous when threatened or crossed. A distant cousin of George III who wields tremendous power, this father-in-law is a “ruthless, eerily omniscient man with an enviable network of spies, informants and assassins.”īut St. Cyr, a Byronic English nobleman with some dark family secrets, a brilliant wife, and a powerful Machiavellian father-in-law with whom he’s often been at loggerheads. And that’s the kind of historical mystery Harris writes, fielding a hero I dubbed the “ Regency Jason Bourne” a few years ago.
The gorgeous covers are elegant, mysterious, evocative and haunting. You can judge a book by its cover when it’s a C.S.
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