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A lowly Austrian secret agent almost prevents the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Tobias Ault, of Austro-Hungary's intelligence service, hears rumors Black Hand, Serbia's secret terrorist organization, plans to launch attacks against Vienna. He investigates and stumbles onto a new find: Black Hand intends to kill Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo. Alone, without the consent of his superiors, Tobias travels to the Bosnian city and soon finds himself pitted against Serbian fanatics with one end in mind - the death of the Royal Couple. A Dark happiness offers one part espionage, one part love story, and one part speculation of how seconds changes the course of history. Readers will find themselves transported back to the end of the Belle Époque, the golden age of pomp, pageantry, and moral decay, blissfully unaware of an approaching maelstrom. Those who enjoyed Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March, Taylor Caldwell's Answer as A Man, or Allegra Jordon's The End of Innocence, will recognize universal themes of duty, honor, sacrifice, and devotion in A Dark Happiness.

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Robert T. Hunting has always thought himself as a wordsmith and a great lover of books. At eight, he remembers a field trip to a library, where he received his first library card. He used it to take out the first book in the Freddy the Pig detective series. Robert is still drawn into good yarns, especially those with compelling characters and well-developed plotlines. As a writer, he favors placing normal characters in abnormal situations, battling and getting the better of unmanageable odds. Whether caught in the slipstream of war, or through other demanding predicaments, his characters never give up on life. After all, what would a story be without high challenge? Robert leans toward historical fiction, but enjoys other genres as well. Robert is the author of eight novels.

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