Precipice M. L. Longworth Penguin Books FF Paperback 2012 darkness and light

darkness and light

discover what may be the missing portrait

Hatton Garden diamond merchant

Miyagaki Yotaro is one of Japan's most famed mystery writers

it seems at first like the search might be over

Precipice M. L. Longworth Penguin Books FF Paperback 2012 darkness and lightSummer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26 year old Venetia Stanley aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents and