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by Eric Zencey
Farrar Straus Giroux


Paris, 1892. The American historian Henry Adams, grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, is looking for Miriam Talbot, a young woman he is taken with.When he arrives at her given address, he finds no one has seen her. And when another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adams knows she is in trouble. Adams soon discovers that Miriam's disappearance is somehow involved with the great Panama Affair that threatens to engulf France. Zencey's suspenseful and brilliant novel offers an exquisite balance of intrigue and history.

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