Excellent thriller/mystery. Semi-cozy. Tanner, a coffee entrepreneur, accidentally picks up the laptop of a senator. The laptop contains top secret info on a govt. Big Brother spying operation. Tanner brings it to a reporter friend who is promptly dead (suicide, but we suspect murder). The senator's chief of staff, Will, wants the laptop back and will do anything to get it. Interesting in that NONE of the characters are stock villains or heroes. Both grow into their roles. Will becomes more ruthless; Tanner more resourceful. Chase scenes, hit-and-run, marriage and baby problems. Really a different mystery.
February 1895 (Alice died in 1892) Money problems, jealousy of Wilde; time spent with Lord Wolseley1; off to Ireland to lick his wounds; Irish unrest--Irish landlords boycott all social events; much time spent with manservant Hammond (homosexual attraction again); fancy dress ball, appalling to James, who is only happy in company of Hammond, though Hammond remains a servant and no more; little girl alone on the grounds--inspiration for Turn of the Screw?; conflict with Webster who alludes to Wilde's successful play and HJ's failure; Wolseley was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army . He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, West Africa, and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the British Army in promoting efficiency. He served in Burma, the Crimean War , the Indian Mutiny , China, Canada and widely throughout Africa—including his Ashanti campaign (18...
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