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Cometh the Hour
695 pages
A sweeping, high-stakes family saga where boardroom battles and Cold War espionage collide with matters of the heart.
What it feels like
Reading this installment of the Clifton Chronicles feels like stepping into a meticulously orchestrated, high-society soap opera where the stakes are always life, death, or total ruin. The narrative moves at a brisk, addictive clip, effortlessly juggling boardrooms, political arenas, and the icy dread of the Iron Curtain. It is a deeply dramatic experience, wrapping the reader in a sweeping atmosphere of tension and glamour. The prose is crisp and functional, designed entirely to serve the relentless momentum of the plot and the sharp, sparring dialogue between rivals. It delights readers who love sprawling, multi-generational sagas where loyalty is constantly tested, secrets have devastating ripple effects, and every chapter seems to end on a breathless, cinematic cliffhanger.
- Mood
- high-stakes
- sweeping
- tense
- Tone
- dramatic
- suspenseful
- earnest
- theatrical
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- the weight of legacy · loyalty and betrayal · forbidden romance · ambition and ruin · political maneuvering
- The writing
- Crisp, accessible, and heavily reliant on sharp dialogue to maintain a relentless forward momentum.
- The arc
- Begins in the shockwaves of a devastating revelation and accelerates through a labyrinth of high-stakes gambles, culminating in breathless, intertwined cliffhangers.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave sprawling, multi-generational sagas packed with boardroom scheming, political espionage, and soapy, high-society drama.
Content notes
- suicide
- political imprisonment
- financial ruin
About the book
The reading of a suicide note has devastating consequences for the Clifton family. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something happens that none of them could have anticipated.
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