David Butler

LILLIE LANGTRY, THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE OF HEROINES She was real life, but much larger-and beyond any novelist's imagination. She was the most celebrated siren of the Victorian Age, a common-born adventuress whose beauty, charm and guile made her the toast of society, the talk of two continents, the...

Chapter 1Major-General the Hon. Róbert Bruce paced carefully across the deck of the small river steamer, his black, mirror-polished boots testing each step. The planks were drying after heavy rain and, in patches, treacherous underfoot At the stern, the Royal Ensign hung sodden and above his head...