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Mission to Monte Carlo

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Craig Vandervelt, handsome son of the richest man in America is begged by his cousin, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, to undertake a secret mission in the most flamboyant principality in Europe - Monte Carlo.

Intrigued by the fact that one of Britain’s top agents in India, the reclusive but respected Randall Sare, has disappeared without a trace, Craig agrees once more to use his playboy status as a mask to find out what is really happening.

Craig is also told to beware of a beautiful Russian Countess suspected of being a spy. Young, glamorous and continually in the company of Lord Neasdon, a newcomer to the Foreign Office, she is suspected of using her charms to lure Neasdon into inadvertently give her information regarding the British interests in Tibet.

Moving amongst Europe’s elite and the beauties of the Beau Monde in the gambling houses of Monte Carlo, Craig is soon drawn into danger and treachery, which threatens the delicate political situation between Britain and Russia. But as he uncovers each secret, moving ever nearer to the centre of the plot, he discovers something he never expected to find – true love.

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Author’s NoteMonte Carlo in the last years of the last century was the smartest place in Europe. The guest list to the small Principality reads like a mixture of the Almanach de Goetha and Debrett. Yet the division between the Social classes was unbridgable. During her honeymoon in Monte Carlo after her marriage to the ninth Duke of Marlborough, the Duchess, formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, pointed out to him the elegance and beauty of some of the women to be seen in the Casino. To her surprise he forbade her to mention them and not to recognise the men who accompanied them, even if, she had dined with them in the same party the previous night. Only gradually did she understand the lovely women were the leading courtesans of Europe. Other guests were the fascinating and extravagant Grand Duke Serge of Russia, the Grand Duke Nicolas, the Aga Khan, the beautiful, alluring Lily Langtry, the Duke of Montrose, the Prince of Denmark and inevitably the Prince of Wales. Countless novels, plays and thrillers have been written about Monte Carlo but there is no other place in the whole world which is synonymous with Kings and Princes, Grand Dukes, tricksters, cocottes, cocaine, gambling systems and suicides.

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