The Great PursuitFrensic and Futtle is a small and successful literary agency. But following a successful court case by a woman who claimed to have been libeled by one of their authors, the agency rapidly loses business. One day, a manuscript for a book called Pause O Men for the Virgin arrives at the agency, together with a note from the author's solicitor, saying that the author wishes to remain anonymous and that the agency has carte blanche on how it deals with

Set in an era of superstition

As he throws himself into uncovering Gomorrah's dark secrets

keep it quiet

The sun is hot and high

old Etonian QC

In Alabama

half-French

dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards

' Claire Douglas

Concordian engineer Captain Giovanni is ordered to bridge the Irenicon - not to reunite the sundered city

He decides to stay in the hills

When Susan Barton is marooned on an island in the middle of the Atlantic she enters the world of two men