AmsterdamTwo old friends Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge. In the weeks that follow, Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead

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her arms resting easily together

Beautiful and intelligent

and years into decades - until eventually time itself seemed to melt away

billionaire Sir Ben Parsons

threatening to swallow everyone and everything

making it clear that the Mafia were there before and are there still

This is a wondrous odyssey

One deadly game

Get ready to be swept away

She eventually tracks Flavia to an Egyptian cult in the hills

strides through the wood to the pavilion where Mimosa awaits him