The dyspeptic American Joseph P. Mangles, smoking on the Atlantic, is one of a peculiar breed: men who make a profession of turning up wherever a crisis is about to break. As conspirators led by the revolutionary Kosmaroff plot in a remote Eastern European city, these watchers converge, and a frontier crossing, an old acquaintance and a love affair complicate their work.
Polished political intrigue from a master of the late-Victorian foreign thriller. Download the free EPUB.