A Dead LanguageFrom the author of the critically acclaimed Pinkerton's Sister comes volume two of this extraordinary sequence of novels. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton steps out of the shadows and into the center of the stage, a young man haunted by the desolation of his boyhood years and unable to show or respond to love. |
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