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In the springtime boom years of postwar London, a brilliant young financier has everything money can buy — except rest. When his pleasure-seeking friends drag him from their exclusive gentlemen’s club into a garish Soho strip joint, he expects nothing but tawdry amusement. Instead, he finds himself transfixed by a performer whose beauty and quiet intelligence pierce straight through his armor of ambition.
She is unlike any woman on that stage — poised, literate, aloof behind her dazzling smile — and soon the city’s most eligible bachelor is risking reputation, fortune, and hard-won self-command for a chance to know her. A discreet introduction leads to midnight meetings, and midnight meetings lead somewhere far more dangerous than the scandal sheets could ever imagine.
Set against the neon-lit underworld of Wardour Street and the marble corridors of high finance, this is a story of obsession, pride, and the perilous gap between what men show the world and what they crave in darkness.
A SFWA Grand Master and the winner of five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, ROBERT SILVERBERG, author of the bestselling Majipoor series and dozens of other books, is one of the giants of science fiction and fantasy. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, writer Karen Haber.
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