Precipice

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Narrator
Samuel West
Length
12 hours 35 minutes
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Catalogue #
20343
Categories
Spy Stories
Ratings
5 star rating(1)
Synopsis

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.

In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley - aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless - is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.

As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents - and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history.