No Such Thing as Duty

A dangerous and bloody affair. In the waning days of World War One, William Somerset Maugham-novelist, playwright, and spy-is sent to Romania to serve allied interests in the fight against Austro-Hungary while dying of tuberculosis. His handler sets him to recruit mysterious Carpathian nobleman Walter Röu to the cause. But Röu is more interested in William than the war, and William struggles to fulfill his duty in the face of death and desire. Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.