Laurie R. King’s new standalone novel, Touchstone, receives the royal treatment today in January Magazine, in a review by former Chicago Tribune crime-fiction critic Dick Adler. In case you can’t tell (ahem!), Adler really likes this novel, which he calls “a terrific combination and culmination of [King’s] work so far.”The story takes place in post-World War I Great Britain, where Harris Stuyvesant, “a tough, shrewd agent with J. Edgar Hoover’s new American Bureau of Investigation” (later to become the FBI) is pursuing an anarchist bomber by the name of Richard Bunsen. Stuyvesant’s probe soon puts him into the company of both Captain Bennett Grey, a man whose severe injuries have gifted him with “extraordinary mental powers,” and Aldous Carstairs, “a power-mad military intelligence officer” who for years has been exploring “how powerful [Grey’s] gifts could be in the intelligence and political world.” What follows from this combination of explosive characters in a combustible environment is a thriller that already has Adler hungering for a sequel.
You can read his whole review of Touchstone here.
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