EXCELSIOR

by Paul Hyde Bonner ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1955

A third cosmetic, cosmopolitan entertainment has been fashioned to attract the audience of S.P.Q.R. and Hotel Talleyrand. Zurich this time does not sober the upper activities of a continental capital. Robert Eggli, a Swiss banker of powerful cumen, is still at 80 active in all phases and a weathervane of international affairs. At home, he governs his family with autocratic absolutism- and on the side he maintains his long love affair with a widowed Baronne. Walter, his eldest son, lacks his brilliance; , Walter's wife, is engaged in a love affair with a bounder believed in contact with Nazi spy; Jacques, his second son, is married to an American and joins the OSS after arl Harbor, while his son, Robert, enlists to fly. Jacques is used to spy not only on lover, but also on his father's code books which will reveal the shifting fortunes of the war. And with Robert's death, he is willing to violate the neutrality of his country of adoption- and it is only his father's death which intercepts him in time... Not uite the firm narrative of the earlier books, there is still the aura of fashionable which makes this a kind of costume jewelry-- for strong rentals and sales.

Pub Date: April 1, 1955

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribner

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1955

Categories: FICTION