A world on the brink of catastrophe. Beginning a treacherous journey through a world of spies and double-cross, propaganda, lost love, and anti-Semitism, he enters a modern world where lies have the power of truth.
Based on real events, 2002 Somerset Maugham Award-winner Theroux returns with a novel that plays out across nineteenth-century Paris, the high plateaus of India, and into the modern world, examining the power of stories and the differing power of the truth.