Precipice

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the Great War from the bestselling author of Act of Oblivion, Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, and Munich.

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Munich comes Precipice, a spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set against the tense backdrop of summer 1914.

As Europe teeters on the brink of the Great War, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley, clever and reckless, is entangled in a clandestine love affair with Prime Minister H. H. Asquith—who shares with her the most sensitive secrets of the British government. But when a young intelligence officer begins investigating a dangerous leak of top-secret documents, what begins as sexual intrigue soon escalates into a matter of national security.

Blending fact and fiction with masterful precision, Robert Harris delivers an electrifying historical thriller about love, betrayal, and politics on the edge of catastrophe.

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