Waiting for Sunrise (P.S.) - Softcover

""Waiting for Sunrise" retains a consistent intrigue and a splendidly intricate plot. . . . The denouement plays out with characteristic suspense and masterful design. . . . [Boyd has] a truly remarkable imagination."--"The Huffington Post"

"Thoroughly entertaining. . . . "Waiting for Sunrise" has the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty."--"The New Yorker"

""Waiting for Sunrise" does the neat trick of evolving from a historical romance into a seat-of-the-pants spy thriller. . . . This is Boyd's stage, on which he is a virtuoso."--"The San Antonio Express-News"

Always a smooth and expert storyteller, Boyd effortlessly combines historical detail with a sexy, galloping narrative that proves irresistible. --"People" (4 stars)"

Boyd retrofits a genre full of familiar devices and character types with finer textures and deeper psychology than it typically boasts. . . . "Waiting for Sunrise" manages to conjure an atmosphere of genuine disorientation that most spy novels gesture toward and few, if any, attain. --Laura Miller, "Salon""

Sex, psychiatry and Vienna on the eve of World War I - those are promising ingredients for a novel. And William Boyd makes the most of them. . . . Boyd s narrative moves briskly, and his local color is deftly done. --"The Seattle Times""

As ever with Boyd there is an effortlessness to the prose and a piercing acuity to the period detail and evocation of place, along with thrilling set pieces. . . .[This book] proves that rarest of beasts: a tantalizingly experimental work that is also an immensely satisfying page-turner. --"The Telegraph""

It s ages since I read a novel that offers such breathlessly readable narrative enjoyment, such page-by-page storytelling confidence and solidity. Boyd has a positive genius for pace and description. --"The Independent""

Boyd is a born story teller whose clear, taut prose never gets in the way of his characters and their unpredictable fates. --"The Wall Street Journal""

Thoroughly entertaining. . . . "Waiting for Sunrise" has the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty. --"The New Yorker""

Wrongly accused of rape, Lysander Rief, a young English actor, finds his life taking a dangerous turn when the men who help him escape a conviction recruit him for a lethal mission that leads him to a traitor who is linked to his family.