Wheels within Wheels

First published in 1933, this tale describes how events that take place in an obscure oil-surveyor''s camp in the French West Indies act as the link and the catalyst for three desperate groups of people thousands of miles apart - in London, New York and the picturesque old quarter of New Orleans.

Upon often trivial acts depends matters of life and love and death, and as always Alec Waugh has disti...