A brilliant thriller about World War I. Once again Follett pitches two awesome adversaries into deadly battle: Walden, peer of the realm and stalwart of the British Empire, and Feliks, son of a poor Russian priest, who bows to no monarch, no government, no love, except the one frozen in his heart.
In 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany arms for war; England and France hastily prepare their defenses. But each side needs Russia-Germany for support in the East, the allies to encompass and contain the aggressive Hun. In Russia's decision lies victory or defeat.
At this volatile moment when the balance of Western power shifts and wavers, Follett takes us into a Mayfair drawing room where the Earl of Walden and young Winston Churchill await a Romanov envoy: Prince Orlov.