The author of "Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon" and "Brazzaville Beach" now pens his most entertaining, sly and compelling novel to date, a novel that evokes the tumult, events and iconic faces of our time, as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart--writer, lover and man of the world--through his intimate journals.
William Boyd s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart writer, lover, art dealer, spy as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century."