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'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds felt so close to him, surely these were easy to hold also to caress, strange-moving things belonging to the huge blue space of heaven . . . '
Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a town on the banking institutions of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin swept up in the Franco-Prussian Battle, he is soon required by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs and the value of secrecy.
Before he's twenty, he is in London, where his empire-building commences in earnest, and he becomes a rich and very ruthless man. Throughout his life, Julius is powered by a being hungry for electricity, his one weakness his princess, Gabriel . . .
A chilling storyline of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third book has lost none of them of its ability to unsettle and disturb.
