Description: The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer, Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man as emissaries from both sides of the conflict rush to purchase his wares. The quiet dinner party held by Alberton and his beautiful wife seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensions and barely concealed violence in this well-appointed mansion, for two Americans, a Southerner, Philo Trace, and a Northerner, Lyman Breelove, to whom Alberton's teenage daughter has pledged her heart, are competing to buy armaments from Alberton. Monk and Hester's forebodings are fulfilled, for within the group, one is brutally murdered and two others disappear, along with Alberton's entire inventory of weapons. Slaves of Obsession twists and turns like a powder keg fuse as Monk and Hester track the man they believe to be a cold-blooded murderer all the way to Washington, D.C. and the bloody battlefield at Manassas. Yet fin ally in a London courtroom Anne Perry holds her readers spellbound while Sir Oliver Rathbone fights to defend the innocent. . .and perhaps the guilty. . .from the hangman's noose.

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