a Gentleman's Guide To Deception: Trust is luxury. Deception an art.

The finest deception does not hide the truth. It makes the truth impossible to recognize. Julian Blackwood has learned not to trust appearances. >Who is Evelyn Calloway? A mysterious photograph from Paris shows something that should be impossible. Arthur Pendelton and Edmund Blackwood stand beside not one woman resembling Evelyn-but two. >THE WRONG ONE CAME HOME. Julian's search for an explanation leads him into the buried history of JANUS, a Cold War intelligence programme built around a disturbing idea: an identity does not necessarily have to belong to a single person. >But someone has taken the principles behind JANUS even further. Witnesses remember events that may never have happened. Independent accounts begin converging with suspicious precision. Old intelligence files contradict the people who created them. Even Julian's extraordinary ability to read behaviour becomes vulnerable when his adversary understands exactly what he is looking for. >What if the person interpreting the evidence can be manipulated just as easily as the evidence itself? >Because when everyone remembers the same thing, agreement can look remarkably like proof. And Julian Blackwood is about to discover that agreement is evidence. It is not truth. Elegant, cerebral, and filled with secret identities, Cold War intrigue, psychological manipulation, and carefully layered twists, A Gentleman's Guide to Deception is the third Julian Blackwood mystery from Alistair Locke.