The Count's Chauffeur
An Englishman who refused to be an accountant finds himself driving a swindler across Europe in this fast-paced Edwardian thriller. George Ewart has worked everywhere and done everything, from Canada to Britain to the continent. His father dreamed of ledgers and columned numbers. Instead, Ewart became a chauffeur, and now he serves Count Bindo di Ferraris: a charming Italian aristocrat with expensive tastes, dangerous connections, and a talent for fraud that spans from the Pyrenees to the Russian frontier. What begins as a job behind the wheel quickly becomes a descent into a world of high-stakes deception. As the Count pulls off scheme after scheme, Ewart is pulled deeper into the machinery of crime, torn between loyalty to his employer and the creeping certainty that he's driving straight toward disaster. When automobiles were still a novelty, when European high society teemed with genuine aristocrats and absolute frauds alike, one man must decide how much complicity he can stomach before the wheels come off.
