False Faces

The war erased everything Michael Lanyard had built. His wife. His children. His fragile new life as an honest man, shattered in the artillery fire of the Somme. But the war has not finished with him yet. Ekstrom lives. The spy who should have died is still breathing, still plotting, and now the ancient conflict between them has erupted into something far deadlier: a shadow war fought in the bombed-out streets of occupied France and the whispering corridors of power where nations are won or lost. Lanyard must become the Lone Wolf once more, that most dangerous of creatures: a gentleman-thief turned spy, operating behind enemy lines with nothing but his wits, his courage, and a mysterious woman whose loyalties remain beautifully, maddeningly unclear. Vance writes with the breakneck pace of a man who knows that every page costs blood. This is World War I as pure adventure, where the greatest battle is fought not in trenches but in the shadows, and where a man must choose between the ghosts of who he was and the man he might become.