Then tragedy occurs and New Scotland Yard becomes involved. James with disquiet, however, for none of the players in the drama seem to react the way one would expect. So the editor turns to forensic scientist Simon St. Knowing that her political future hangs in the balance, Eve Bowen refuses to let Luxford damage her career by printing the story or calling the police. For she is Undersecretary of State for the Home Office, one of the most high-profile Junior Ministers and quite possibly the next Margaret Thatcher. Yet it's not only Luxford's reputation that's on the line: it's also the reputation-and career-of Charlotte Bowen's mother. Luxford knows that the story of Charlotte's paternity could make him a laughingstock and reveal to his beautiful wife and son the lie he's lived for a decade. But Charlotte's existence is Luxford's most fiercely guarded secret, and acknowledging her as his child will throw more than one life and career into chaos. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered her, she will die. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. She refuses to go along with the kidnapper's demand and won't even tell the police the girl is missing.Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. It should be one of the best stories of Luxford's Tory-bashing career, but he has a small problem: He's the father and Eve Bowen believes he took the child in order to embarrass her. Then the daughter is kidnapped, and the kidnapper insists her father admit paternity in the pages of Luxford's newspaper. Eve Bowen is a rising star in the Conservative Party and government, a woman who turned the birth of her illegitimate daughter 10 years earlier into a political advantage. George is true to her story's heart.ĭennis Luxford is a tabloid editor, the King of Sleaze. Lots of clever writers can put together ingenious puzzles Ms. The solution satisfies one intellectually and emotionally, playing fair not only with the clues, but with the book's central themes. "In the Presence of the Enemy" takes a terrific set-up and builds on it with integrity.
George isn't merely pulling off a parlour trick for Anglophiles.
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