DEVIL S PAINTBRUSH, THE - Hodder

WITNESS THE SCENEIn a Parisian restaurant Aleister Crowley, the notorious occultist, chances on Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald: once one of the greatest heroes of the British Empire, now facing ruin in a shocking-and vulnerable to Crowley's offer of help.Follow this unlikely pair on an extraordinary night of revelation, transgression and excess. Be transported to the battlefields of Sudan and the backstreets of Edinburgh.And discover Sir Hector's tragic secret...In this enthralling tale of imperialism, sexuality and the nature of belief, Jake Arnott probes beneath the surface of Victorian comformity and captures a world trembling on the brink of a brutal new era.