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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
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"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
Peter Gadol is the author of The Long Rain, Closer To The Sun, The Mystery Roast (Picador), and Coyote. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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- Publication date1900
- ISBN 10 0312280807
- ISBN 13 9780312280802
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