Hollywood

Within and beyond the gates of La Casa Encantada, Ty's imposing if improbable new home, "the air, in which scents of the warming Pacific and lushly overgrown foothills collided, was ripe with the possibility of utter if temporary happiness that for a century had been the city's siren song."

The Strait of Kerch on the Sea of Azov

Across a barren landscape the wind gusted. It was desolate, yet it was this very desolation that would have given away the Cold War missile installation’s purpose to a practiced eye.

Cap d’Antibes

To the right of the lush Hotel du Cap lays the Golfe-Juan and beyond the far promontory sits Cannes, home to a Film Festival that is the springtime playground of stars, moguls, oligarchs and shadowy middlemen.

Camp David

On a quiet, pastoral weekend, in the rustic living room of Aspen Lodge, the President’s house within the Naval Support Facility Thurmont, the world is at stake.

Rome

Much more than a single city, it is the ancestral home of one of the world’s most fashionable jewelry houses, a palace whose treasures may well underwrite devastation on an unparalleled scale.

The Mediterranean

From lush Marbella to fortress Gibraltar, the Costa del Sol is a land and seascape of alluring, changing and deceptive beauty. As elaborately entwined plots unfold, a battleship disguised as a megayacht of surpassing luxury sets sail to Tangier, the orchid-like portal to Arabia, ripe with history, decay and treachery.