01895cam a2200349 i 4500 1623924361 TxAuBib 20240929120000.0 240904s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024031166 9780063248052 0063248050 (OCoLC)1454598088 TxAuBib rda Harris, Robert, 1957-, author. Precipice / Robert Harris. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] ©2024. vii, 450 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley--aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless--is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as "The Coterie." She's also engaged in a clandestine 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 with Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a leak of top-secret documents. Suddenly, what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that could topple the British government--and will alter the course of political history"-- Provided by publisher. 20240929. World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain Fiction. Prime ministers Great Britain Fiction. Intelligence officers Great Britain Fiction. Adultery Fiction. Letter writing Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) lcgft