This Lower World

Has Dr Felix Culpepper, freelance assassin to the British Establishment, finally met his match? Few other Cambridge Fellows have quite Felix's experience of life, or of death. Now he takes a break from his unofficial role as assassin of choice to the British Establishment to right some wrongs and eliminate some rival killers on his own account. From New York to Venice, he cheerfully takes on the international aristocracy of murder. But then, amid the fragrant mellowness of England's heartwoods, he faces a more disturbing - and violent - moral dilemma than ever before.