Light at Dusk: A Novel

Will Law a rising star in the U.S. Foreign Service mysteriously walks away from his post and in Paris falls into the arms of his onetime lover Pedro. When the child of a mutual friend is kidnapped by a Nationalist gang Will is reluctantly drawn back to the diplomatic world he abandoned. Fighting against a rising tide of French anti-immigrant hatred the Americans launch a deperate search across the city. In the process Will must challenge the moral burdens of his past and in an attempt to rescue the child he must also find a way to redeem himself.. Peter Gadols novel Light at Dusk ...will not look out of place ...on the shelf somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene.--Ben Ehrenreich L.A. Weekly