The Affair, the latest Jack Reacher novel from the irrepressible Lee Child, is set six months before the first of the series’ instalments, Killing Floor.
Anthony McCarten’s novel is a fictionalised biography of Edison seen largely in flashback as he travels to a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of his invention of the light bulb.
Set in Florence during August, the month of intense heat and humidity when anyone who can leaves the city for the beach, this is the third in the Sandro Cellini series.
