Panama

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PARIS, 1892. The American historian Heniy Adams, grandson of one President and great-grandson of another, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American woman studying in Paris. Miriam is alive in ways Adams can scarcely remember being: bright, beguiling, talented, and attractive. She draws him out of the "posthumous" life he has led since the suicide of his wife, Clover, seven years before. But when he goes looking for Miriam, no one at her given address has seen her. And when another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adams knows she is in trouble and needs his assistance.
Adams soon discovers that Miriam s disappearance is somehow involved with the great Panama Affair that threatens to engulf France. Before it went bankrupt, the French Panama Canal Company had bribed nearly half the members of the Chamber of Deputies to gain legislation favorable to its interests. Now one director of the company has been found dead; other... Tovább

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Printed in the U.S.A.
PARIS, 1892. The American historian Heniy Adams, grandson of one President and great-grandson of another, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American woman studying in Paris. Miriam is alive in ways Adams can scarcely remember being: bright, beguiling, talented, and attractive. She draws him out of the "posthumous" life he has led since the suicide of his wife, Clover, seven years before. But when he goes looking for Miriam, no one at her given address has seen her. And when another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adams knows she is in trouble and needs his assistance.
Adams soon discovers that Miriam s disappearance is somehow involved with the great Panama Affair that threatens to engulf France. Before it went bankrupt, the French Panama Canal Company had bribed nearly half the members of the Chamber of Deputies to gain legislation favorable to its interests. Now one director of the company has been found dead; other directors flee; and for a week, the entire city awaits the revelation of the names of the chéquardó, the long list of deputies witless enough to have accepted their bribes in the form of checks.
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Adams's search for Miriam leads him into the darker reaches of Paris, into a pohtical world as impenetrable and threatening as the jungles of Panama. Eric Zencey's suspenseful, brilliant novel offers an exquisite balance of intrigue and history —a provocative view of a world teetering on the brink of modernity, through the eyes of one of its most astute observers.

ERIC ZENCEYisa professor of history at Goddard College in Vermont and a contributing editor of North American Rene^v. This is his first book.
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