Twenty years ago, Maximus Batten witnessed the brutal murder of his parents. Now as the autocratic Duke of Wakefield, he spends his days dealing with politics in Parliament, but at night, disguised as the Ghost of St. Giles, wanders the dark alleys in sea
Hansen's Children is a thrilling and terrifying story about the fate of prisoners in Europe's last leper colony, in southern Romania; forgotten during the fall of a totalitarian regime.
In this novel, Gray combines the white-hot psychosis of the gold rush with magnificent descriptions of the wild mountains of Idaho – one of his most thrilling and tragic novels.