In The Presence Of The Enemy: An Inspector Lynley Novel: 8 - Softcover

Elizabeth George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144473833X ISBN 13: 9781444738339

Publisher: Hodder, 2012

Synopsis

As the editor of a popular left-wing tabloid, Dennis Luxford has made a career out of scandal. But this time the scoop involves his own daughter. To save the life of his child, Luxford must expose the girl's mother - Eve Bowen, now Under Secretary of State for the Home Office. And Eve refuses to involve the police, convinced that Charlotte's disappearance is just one more shabby tabloid ploy. Only when events take an unbearable turn is New Scotland Yard brought in, in the guise of Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Barbara Havers. And as their investigations move from Westminster to Wiltshire, Lynley and Havers discover that treachery and betrayal lie perilously close to home.

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Review

In her previous novels, including the bestselling Playing for the Ashes, George has developed the characters of forensic scientist Simon St. James, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers to a fine degree. In this, her eighth novel, the secret love child of an ambitious politician and a sleazy tabloid publisher is kidnapped. When Scotland Yard gets involved, Lynley and Havers must elude death as they search for the child and her kidnappers. An insightful and haunting novel of ideals corrupted and retribution visited upon the heads of the innocent.

From the Publisher

Elizabeth George has been hailed as "an master practitioner of the modern English mystery"* and each of her previous seven novels has been an international bestseller. With In The Presence Of The Enemy, her finest work yet, George once again explores the incendiary themes of passion and betrayal that have made her a master of the genre she has made so distinctly her own--the classic detective story that is also a richly creative novel.

When a young girl disappears from the streets of London without a trace, her mother, a well-respected MP, is convinced she knows the identity of the kidnapper--the child's father. But Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers soon learn that nothing in this investigation is what it appears to be, and that in betrayal and deception, lies death.

Praise for Elizabeth George:

"Ms. George can do it all, with style to spare."--The Wall Street Journal

"Ms. George proves that the classiest crime writers are true novelists."--The New York Times Book Review

"A master of the modern English mystery."--Entertainment Weekly

* The Sun, Baltimore Copyright © 1996 by Susan Elizabeth George.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 144473833X
• ISBN 13: 9781444738339
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 636