A magnificent literary historical-suspense novel in the tradition of Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries<\/i>, Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers<\/i>, and Michael Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White<\/i>, By Gaslight<\/i>is destined to be one of the most acclaimed and talked-about books of the year.<\/p>\n
London, 1885. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men’s futures — a man of smoke. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of a brutal detective, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead. His father died without ever tracing Shade; William, still reeling from his loss, is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows. Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair ten years gone. When he receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns to London in search of her; what he learns of her fate, and its connection to the man known as Shade, will force him to confront a grief he thought long-buried. What follows is a fog-enshrouded hunt through sewers, opium dens, drawing rooms, and seance halls. Above all, it is the story of the most unlikely of bonds: between William Pinkerton, the greatest detective of his age, and Adam Foole, the one man who may hold the key to finding Edward Shade.<\/p>\n
Epic in scope, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly written, Steven Price’s By Gaslight <\/i>is a riveting, atmospheric portrait of two men on the brink. Moving from the diamond mines of South Africa to the battlefields of the Civil War, the novel is a journey into a cityscape of grief, trust, and its breaking, where what we share can bind us even against our darker selves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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