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The American Boy

by Andrew Taylor

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The American Boy

Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?

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The American Boy - Andrew Taylor

I love this thriller because it tells the story of a much darker and dangerous London, tracing the childhood of Edgar Allan Poe. The detail in the location is amazing but also slightly unnerving because it takes you completly out of modern day London - making it hard to return to everyday life.

Review by of the London - Hammersmith Books Etc on 2009-02-04 13:02:36

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