The Empire of Night

A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller

It is 1915, and "Kit" Cobb is working undercover in a castle on the Kent coast owned by a suspected British government mole, Sir Albert Stockman. Kit is working with his mother, the beautiful and mercurial spy, Isabel Cobb, who also happens to be a world-famous stage actress. Isabel's offstage role is to keep tabs on Stockman, while Kit tries to figure out his agenda. Following his mother and her escort from the relative safety of Britain into the lion's den of Berlin, Kit must remain in character, even under the very nose of the Kaiser.

• Second novel in the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series.

• Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and sixteen other novels including the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series.

• Historical Thriller for fans of David Downing, Pat Barker, Sebastian Faulks, William Boyd and Philip Kerr.

"The Empire of Night" was written by Robert Olen Butler.

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and sixteen other novels including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Yes, "The Empire of Night" is part of the "A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller" series. It's book 2 in the series.