Light at Dusk - by Peter Gadol (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Will Law, a rising star in the U.S. Foreign Service, mysteriously walks away from his post and, in Paris, falls into the arms of his onetime lover Pedro. When the child of a mutual friend is kidnapped by a Nationalist gang, Will is reluctantly drawn back to the diplomatic world he abandoned. Fighting against a rising tide of French anti-immigrant hatred, the Americans launch a deperate search across the city. In the process, Will must challenge the moral burdens of his past, and in an attempt to rescue the child, he must also find a way to redeem himself.

Peter Gadol's novel Light at Dusk "...will not look out of place ...on the shelf somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene."--Ben Ehrenreich, L.A. Weekly

Review Quotes

"Elegant, exquisitely mannered prose; tight suspenseful plotting...Light at Dusk will not look out of place...on the shelf somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene." --Ben Ehrenreich, LA Weekly

"Light at Dusk...has sinew and heart and a bracing sobriety." --Randall Curb, Boston Review

"A spellbinding narrative." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Gadol brings you into his story quickly. His prose is lyrical but beautifully spare." --Richard Wallace, Seattle Times

"[A] riveting, cinematically seductive tale." --Booklist

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