The Last Grand Tour

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A captivating exploration of the promise and burden of passionate love.-</strong><strong> Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>American tour guide Joe Newhouse wants nothing more than to reach Venice. Since moving to Munich after the fall of the Berlin Wall he's watched his business fail his wife leave him and his love for Europe diminish. Now he faces one last ten-day tour with a surly group that doesn't want to be there. As he leads them through the mythic lands of Europe's Romantic past he grows increasingly disturbed by their stories of earlier lives puzzled by their desire to be with a man who doesn't arrive and entangled in an illicit affair that promises to either save him or plunge his tour-and his life-into madness.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Soaked in the Romantic atmosphere and dark deeds of old Europe-as well as the freedoms and hopes of a new era-</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Last Grand Tour</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> takes us on a perilous journey through Hitler's Berchtesgaden Mozart's Salzburg and Mad King Ludwig's Bavarian fantasyland before reaching its stunning climax in the murky waters of Venice. </span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Along the way it explores the often-shifting lines between fidelity and freedom illusion and reality regret and desire.</span></p>