The Face of a Stranger
Quotes from the Book
You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.
Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.
That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.
Fear does different things to people. Some run away. Some go forward to meet it before it's there.
How quickly a moment sinks into the past.
When you are in love, there is not much that hurts as deeply as rejection.
It isn't always the value of what is taken that makes us hate. Sometimes it's just the fact that we've been robbed.
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Through Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were swiftly passing. Theirs was a peace that led to war.
On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph’s brother, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document—allegedly with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A p
Book details
- First published
- 2003
- Author
- Anne Perry
- Genre
- Mystery
- Goodreads rating
- 3.68 (4k ratings)
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