Mr. Oppenheim’s new story is a narrative of mystery and international
intrigue that carries the reader breathless from page to page. It is
the tale of the secret and world-startling methods employed by the
Emperor of Japan through Prince Maiyo, his close kinsman, to ascertain
the real reasons for the around-the-world cruise of the American
fleet. The American Ambassador in London and the Duke of Denvenham, an
influential Englishman, work hand in hand to circumvent the Oriental
plot, which proceeds mysteriously to the last page. From the time when
Mr. Hamilton Fynes steps from the _Lusitania_ into a special tug, in
his mad rush towards London, to the very end, the reader is carried
from deep mystery to tense situations, until finally the explanation is
reached in a most unexpected and unusual climax.
No man of this generation has so much facility of expression, so many
technical resources, or so fine a power of narration as Mr. E. Phillips
Oppenheim.--_Philadelphia Inquirer._
Mr. Oppenheim is a past master of the art of constructing ingenious
plots and weaving them around attractive characters.--_London Morning
Post._
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