First published 2011
Dr. Stratham Younger stands on Wall Street when a massive bomb explodes on September 16, 1920. The blast kills and injures four hundred people in what becomes America's deadliest terrorist attack. Younger teams up with his friend Captain James Littlemore of the New York Police Department to investigate the carnage. They work alongside Colette Rousseau, a French radiochemist Younger met during the war. Someone keeps attacking Rousseau for reasons nobody understands. She carries secrets from her past that may connect to the bombing. The three follow a puzzling trail of clues that takes them from Paris to Prague, then to Sigmund Freud's home in Vienna and the halls of power in Washington. Each new piece of evidence reveals more about human nature's darkest impulses. Younger and Littlemore slowly connect the scattered fragments of their investigation. The truth behind the Wall Street attack proves more shocking than anyone imagined.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, investigation
Setting: Paris, Prague, Vienna, Wall Street
Period: 1920
431 pages · Paperback · Luitingh~Sijthoff
Content warnings: violence