The Masquerader [Hardcover]

Katherine Cecil Thurston (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 2006

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Two incidents, widely different in character yet bound together by results, marked the night of January the twenty-third. On that night the blackest fog within a four years' memory fell upon certain portions of London, and also on that night came the first announcement of the border risings against the Persian government in the province of Khorasan the announcement that, speculated upon, even smiled at, at the time, assumed such significance in the light of after events. At eight o'clock the news spread through the House of Commons; but at nine men in the inner lobbies were gossiping, not so much upon how far Russia, while ostensibly upholding the Shah, had pulled the strings by which the insurgents danced, as upon the manner in which the 'St. Geotge's Gazette', the Tory evening newspaper, had seized upon the incident and shaken it in the faces of the government.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 364 pages
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1421810581
• ISBN-13: 978-1421810584
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,487,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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John Chilcote is a married man of privilege and political position who also has a secret drug addiction. John Loder is a man fallen from grace, down at the heels and has reached a point in life where he merely exists. One foggy night in London these two strangers meet by accident and discover an incredible likeness to one another. Thus an incredible plan is hatched as the two agree to switch places for awhile.

For Chilcote, it offers a chance to escape his responsibilites and wallow in a morphine-induced stupor in private.

For Loder, it gives him a brief taste of the good life and the political thrill of being in the thick of things when an international crisis erupts. The book is mainly about Loder.

Of course a story wouldn't be very interesting if things went smoothly. For all the good Loder does, when Chilcote reclaims his life he just mucks things up again. Plus there's the danger of discovery when a woman from Loder's past thinks she recognizes him. And there's a tangling of heartstrings as Loder finds himself falling in love with Chilcote's wife, Eve.

Will Chilcote find the strength to kick his drug habit? Will Loder do the right thing when it comes to Eve? Will the masquerade be found out by a shady lady?

You'll just have to read the book, won't you.