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His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him- surely they were easy to hold and to caress- strange-moving things belonging to the wide blue space of heaven . . . Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War- he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there- he learns the ease of swindling- the rewards of love affairs and the value of secrecy. Before hes twenty- he is in London- where his empire-building begins in earnest- and he becomes a rich and very ruthless man. Throughout his life- Julius is driven by a hunger for power- his one weakness his daughter- Gabriel . . . A chilling story of ambition- Daphne du Mauriers third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb....