Not Frazer’s anthropology but a novel of intrigue from 1918, which Gibbs dedicated to the historian John Bach McMaster as history turned masquerade. Its chapters move from enigma to flight and pursuit: a woman named Tanya Khodkine, a revolutionary Central Committee, a man called Von Stromberg, a clue in a Turkish cigarette, pilgrims, a priest and a night adventure.
An illustrated wartime romance of plots and escapes by a popular American author of The Yellow Dove. Download the free EPUB.