Party of the Year by John Crosby
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Overview: From the first edition dust jacket:
John Crosby, who has been called America’s Graham Greene and whose following grows every year, has delivered his breakthrough novel, a captivating story of sophisticated suspense that features two of the most delightful characters to appear in print in many a year.
Horatio Cassidy, a beguilingly uninhibited professor of medieval literature and one-time CIA factotum, is hired by the ageless and beautiful Principessa di Castiglione to both tutor and protect her twelve-year-old daughter Lucia. Very soon Cassidy discovers two things: that he has developed an uncommon affection for his precocious charge and that her life is threatened on every side by people who have resolved not only to kidnap and possibly kill the child, but have every means in the world of doing so.
The story takes place in Windletop, a fifty-five-story highrise of black glass and steel on Manhattan’s elegant East Side, a luxury dwelling whose security apparatus, with twentieth-century embellishments, would rival the most impregnable European fortress of the Middle Ages. But a fanatical group of assassins accepts the building’s challenge, and when the cream of international society converges on the Windletop for the Principessa’s extravagant party of the year, the gala festivities reach a crescendo of glittering terror that both shocks the world and severely tests the lives and relationship of Cassidy and Lucia.
Here is a fast-paced novel with tender and thoughtful characterizations proving that John Crosby is indeed a natural storyteller of extraordinary talent.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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