Paul Witcover is the author of Waking Beauty and a celebrated writer whose work has been featured on HBO. His writing delves deeply into the complexities of human relationships and existential themes. Through his short stories and comics, he explores notions of identity, memory, and the search for meaning in the contemporary world. Witcover's distinctive style blends lyrical prose with sharp psychological insight.
That weapon is a clock - a watch, to be precise, of a size to fit comfortably in a man's hand...a watch with a taste for blood - a mechanism that contains the doom of all that lives. But with the help of Lord Wichcote - an aristocrat of many talents and more disguises - Quare succeeded in seizing the watch.
England is embroiled in a globe-spanning conflict that stretches from her North American colonies to Europe and beyond. Across the Channel, the French prepare for an invasion - an invasion rumored to be led by none other than Bonnie Prince Charlie. It seems the map of Europe is about to be redrawn.