Shadow Game

Four of David Bellino's childhood pals, his lovely lover Laura, and the head of an American corporate empire all reunite after years apart thanks to an invitation to New Year's Eve 1990. But nobody wants to take a vacation. They've come to settle scores with David since his ambition and ruthless greed destroyed their plans forever. But before the heated debate even starts, David is found dead in his study. Six life pictures-six destinies-that were connected-and destroyed-by the need for love and friendship emerge during hour-long interrogations, emotional dialogues with one another, and out of tormented recollections.
By tying together the Second World War Berlin, a posh English boarding school, the gutters and affluent neighborhoods of New York and London, as well as the romantic lanes of Vienna, Lila L. Flood creates a web of tragic, passionate, and frightful connections. She depicts the emotions that underlie our behaviors with sensitivity and acute instinct. This is how she was able to create a gripping contemporary book that not only exposes a crime but also its hidden causes.