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Parece algo de lo más inocente. Un coronel británico caído en desgracia le lega una misteriosa carta a su único hijo. Sin embargo, en el momento en que Adam Scott abre el sobre amarillento, se pone en marcha una cadena de acontecimientos que podría llegar a sacudir los cimientos del mundo libre. En pocos días, Adam se encontrará en plena huida por las principales ciudades de Europa tras el brutal asesinato de su amante. No solo lo persigue el KGB, sino también la CIA y sus propios compatriotas.

Sunny Randall is a Boston P.I. and former cop, a college graduate, an aspiring painter, a divorcée, and the owner of a miniature bull terrier named Rosie. Hired by a wealthy family to locate their teenage daughter, Sunny is tested by the parents' preconceived notion of what a detective should be. With the help of underworld contacts, she tracks down the runaway Millicent, who has turned to prostitution. Rescuing her from a vicious pimp, Sunny finds herself the unlikely custodian of a difficult teenager when the girl refuses to return to her family.

To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism, the United States has become the home of the cowardly, the shameless, the selfish, and the alienated. Properly channeled, honor encourages virtues like courage, integrity, and solidarity.