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In the high Rocky Mountains, Civil War veteran Marshall Brewster has a vision of wealth and fame. Under the tutelage of a hardened railroad tycoon, Brewster will build a railroad connecting Colorado's booming silver mines to a country starved for wealth - and maybe win himself the hand of a beautiful woman in the process. But as in war, Brewster's plan is soon shattered by the enemy.

Pinerolo, Italy. April 1945. At a fascist conference, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man - a political activist or maybe a terrorist - interviews the survivors to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was this writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police?

Robert Draper’s critically acclaimed debut novel explores the bonds of friendship and and the limits of loyalty. As a 15 year old boy, Hadrian committed murder to save his friend Sonny’s life and is sentenced to 50 years in prison. As the years progress their mutual dependence on each other twists their friendship into a question of who owes what to whom.