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Through chance, luck and choice, one man's life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London _ in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our livesFifteen-year-old Istv?n lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour _ a married woman close to his mother's age _ as his only companion.

As these encounters shift into a clandestine relationship, Istv?n's life spirals out of control. Years later, rising through the ranks from the army to the elite circles of London's super-rich, he navigates the twenty-first century's tides of money and power. Torn between love, intimacy, status, and wealth, his newfound riches threaten to undo him completely.