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Synopsis
His boyhood friend, Count Wladislav Sobolewski had profiteered in the ruins
of postwar Europe, enjoyed himself with an apparently clear conscience and
roundly abused the Prince as an old sentimentalist.
Wladislav had been a born survivor-except that now he was dead by his own hand, driven to suicide by the shame of heroin addiction. Somehow it didn't make sense. The Count had also left the Prince a substantial portion of his ill-gotten gains. That was even more perplexing. A clause in his friend's will had described him as a keeper of the faith'. What faith? With the aid of an old US Air Force friend who made John Wayne look like a bleeding heart liberal and his octogenarian Uncle Paul. Prince Michel Ponikowski decided that he'd better find out...
The complexities of this immensely clever novel about Poland, moneyand sex (well, power) will appeal to fans of Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE'
A brilliant story: hilarious, moving, gripping and absolutely chilling'
VENUE
'Read the book with pleasure and no small amount of delight' .
SUNDAY PRESS
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In this mildly diverting mystery/adventurewhose very red herring will lead only the imperceptive from the true cluePrince Michel Polikowski, an expatriate Pole living in London, is startled to learn that his good friend, also born of Polish royalty, has killed himself after a secret fight with heroin addiction and has left his entire estate not to his widow but to the prince. Michela ragamuffin gentleman who fought in the gallant tradition of his defeated country during World War II and for the U.S. in Koreawants explanations. For help, he turns to his still-lecherous elderly uncle, Prince Paul, a loutish American army officer, and a Neapolitan mafiosi. He encounters a widespread Polish diaspora, a murderous gang of Italian street urchins and their fiendish mentor, a Vatican manuscript, and a line of investigation that abounds in twists and turns that will leave readers somewhat bemused. Donald's previous thriller was Boast.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0586074368
- ISBN 13 9780586074367
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages368
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