01546cam a2200265 i 4500 1727233669 TxAuBib 20241119120000.0 240708s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024031166 9780063248052 hardcover 0063248050 hardcover TxAuBib rda Harris, Robert, author. Precipice [HC] : a novel / Robert Harris. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. pages 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. 20241119. Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Novels. lcgft