Panama

Eric Zencey

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, softcover.

On a visit to Paris in 1892, the American historian Henry Adams befriends a young woman who then vanishes, drawing him after her through the city's seamier reaches and into the corrupt heart of the Panama Canal scandal. Zencey's bestselling novel combines
history and fiction in a gripping mystery, and captures a world teetering on the brink of modernity.