In the drawing-rooms of late-Victorian London, the unclubbable Willie Ruston is floating a vast company to open up the African territory of Omofaga. Peers, financiers and politicians fall in behind him, and so, more dangerously, does Maggie Dennison, a clever married woman who finds his single-minded will irresistible.
A sharp, witty novel of money and empire, published the same year as Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda. Download the free EPUB.