Waiting For Sunrise

Vienna 1913. Lysander Rief a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful enigmatic woman. When she presses rape charges however he is mystified. Only a carefully plotted escapewith the help of two mysterious British diplomatssaves him from trial.The frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that dismantles Rief s life. He returns to London hoping to banish from memory his traumatic ordeals abroad but soon the men who helped coordinate his escape recruit him to carry out the murder of a complete stranger. His lover from Vienna arrives nonchalantly at a party ready to resume their liaison and before he can stop to consider where these events are leading Rief finds himself on the trail of a traitora man whose bizarre connection to his own family proves a cruel twist of fate. Waiting for Sunrise is more than a page-turning thrillerits a riveting investigation of the limits of loyalty the power of deception and the unpredictable events that can change the course of a persons life.