![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Bantam Books, 23.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-5-3 After seven outings (the last was Playing for the Ashes), upper-crust Detective Inspector. * The Sun, Baltimore Copyright © 1996 by Susan Elizabeth George. In the Presence of the Enemy Elizabeth A. ![]() "A master of the modern English mystery."- Entertainment Weekly George proves that the classiest crime writers are true novelists."- The New York Times Book Review George can do it all, with style to spare."- The Wall Street Journal But Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers soon learn that nothing in this investigation is what it appears to be, and that in betrayal and deception, lies death. When a young girl disappears from the streets of London without a trace, her mother, a well-respected MP, is convinced she knows the identity of the kidnapper-the child's father. Genres Mystery Fiction Crime Mystery Thriller Detective Thriller British Literature. With In The Presence Of The Enemy, her finest work yet, George once again explores the incendiary themes of passion and betrayal that have made her a master of the genre she has made so distinctly her own-the classic detective story that is also a richly creative novel. In the Presence of the Enemy is a brilliantly insightful and haunting novel of ideals corrupted by self-interest, of the sins of parents visited upon children, and of the masks that hide people from each otherand from themselves. Elizabeth George has been hailed as "an master practitioner of the modern English mystery"* and each of her previous seven novels has been an international bestseller. ![]()
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