The King Street Affair

<p>CHARLESTON SC-Wyatt Brewer has a respectable life as a newspaper reporter in the Holy City. One winter morning he is assigned to cover the death of a mysterious Estonian who washed up on Folly Beach.</p><p><br></p><p>When intelligence agents Bert Wilson and Penelope Lowe pick him up for interrogation Wyatt understands he's stumbled into an underground world of crime and corruption. The agents give him a choice: Help them bring down a mole in their division or fend for himself against Eastern European gangsters and dirty government officials.</p><p><br></p><p>Part southern crime novel part cat-and-mouse espionage thriller Jon Sealy's fourth novel is a meditation on the many ways the human heart can betray us.</p>