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The Pursuit of Triumph

THE PURSUIT OF TRIUMPH
A Novel by William Lynes

London, September 1940. As the Luftwaffe reduces the East End to rubble, disgraced American surgeon J.D. Calhoun—fled from Texas after a fraternity party ended in a young woman's death—volunteers in Whitechapel, hoping the war will finish what his drinking started.

On his first night, a bomb tears open a passing car, and J.D. saves the life of Lord Rupert Belgrave using a butcher's knife and his bare hands. Assisting him is Lady Clara Whitfield, a disgraced aristocrat turned nurse—and one of Rupert's own past victims.

As the Blitz rages, J.D. and Clara fall into a fierce, complicated love, each fighting to save the other: she from his addiction, he from the ruin Rupert threatens to bring down on her again. But Rupert is no ordinary villain—he is secretly murdering Whitechapel's most forgotten women with an untraceable new narcotic, hiding his crimes beneath the chaos of the bombing. Meanwhile, a Texas Ranger crosses the Atlantic, hunting J.D. for a death he may or may not have caused.

Part wartime romance, part gothic thriller, The Pursuit of Triumph asks what it costs to love someone worth saving—and what it takes to destroy a monster hiding in plain sight.