The Golden Web

Stirling Deane has everything: money, power, the comfortable certainty that the world bends to his will. Then Basil Rowan appears on his threshold, disheveled, desperate, returned from Africa with nothing left to lose. A dying man with a dangerous plan to redeem himself, Rowan offers Deane a bargain that will test every assumption about loyalty, desperation, and what we owe to those we've abandoned. As Deane hesitates on the precipice of a decision that will define his character, the novel tightens into a thrilling examination of moral compromise under pressure. Oppenheim weaves wealth and survival into a taut narrative where every choice carries weight, where the golden web of circumstance ensnares both men in ways neither anticipated. The result is a compulsively readable portrait of two men at the end of their ropes, reaching for something just beyond their grasp.