And as their investigations move from the heart of parliamentary London to rural Wiltshire, both Lynley and Havers discover that treachery and betrayal lie perilously close to home. It is only when events escalate to unbearable heights that New Scotland Yard, in the guise of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, are brought in. In the Presence of the Enemy is a brilliantly insightful and haunting novel of ideals corrupted by self-interest, of the sins of parents visited upon children, and of the masks that hide people from each other, and. And even when it becomes clear that her daughter Charlotte is missing, Eve refuses to involve the police, insisting that her child’s disappearance is simply a ploy, however despicable, by Luxford to bring down the Tory government. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley soon discovers that the case sends tentacles from London into the.
For the woman involved is Eve Bowen, now the Under Secretary of State for the Home Office. But this liaison was no ordinary one-night stand. To save the life of his first-born child, whom he has never even seen, Luxford must reveal the details of his brief affair with the child’s mother on the front page of his newspaper. But at the heart of this particular scoop lies the kidnapping of a ten-year-old girl: Luxford’s daughter. When he is offered the chance of breaking another government ‘sleaze’ story and boosting the circulation of his paper still further his hesitation seems inexplicable. As the editor of a popular left-wing tabloid, Dennis Luxford has made a career out of exposing scandal and destroying reputations.
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