Precipicio

Summer of 1914. Europe is on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley is having an intimate and illicit affair with British Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, then 62. He writes to her obsessively, and she becomes his confidante on matters of state. As the British leader guides the country into war with Germany, a serious leak of secret documents alerts the government, and an intelligence agent takes charge of the investigation. The affair transforms into a matter of national security with repercussions on the geopolitical stage. Masterfully intertwining fact and fiction, Robert Harris brings to life one of the most gripping moments in history in a high-voltage thriller where a private obsession threatens the fate of a nation.