Publisher's Synopsis
Augustus Rose is an unlikely operative in a terrorist network. His interrogator is the ruthless Harper. Without hope of escape, Augustus endures an emotional and physical attack that brings his life under brutal scrutiny; his race, religion, politics and past and the people he has loved. Augustus' defence is his memory: the women in his life, his outcast mother, the vigilante who recruited him, and Selina, a New York aristocrat; their epic, taboo love affair in 1960s Manhattan. He remembers a lifetime of passion, heartbreak and wanderlust, leading Augustus to a bleak Scottish island where death seems his only companion.
