When struggling painter Nicholas Gray first sees Margaretha Zelle, it is
in a poor photograph. But something draws him to her. All men are drawn
to Margaretha-her mysterious eyes, her effortless sensuality. In another
life, she will become known as Mata Hari. As a dancer, she becomes
famous. As a seductress, she becomes legendary. Soon, Mata Hari is
crisscrossing Europe, collecting generals, aristocrats, and businessmen
as her lovers. But staying behind in Paris, only Gray truly loves her.
He watches from afar as her shifting alliances and brushes with power
entangle her in a world of espionage and danger. Can Gray save her
before the trap springs shut? Author Dan Sherman brings his mastery of
modern suspense to this thrilling story of the world's most legendary
femme fatale. Blending history with fiction, The Man Who Loved Mata Hari
has earned its author comparison to John La Carré and Graham Greene. It
will ensnare readers with its tale of the woman who held all of Europe
spellbound. Dan Sherman has written a handful of popular thrillers,
starting with such near-contemporary successes as The White Mandarin
(1982, set in China from 1949 through the 1960s) and The Prince of
Berlin (1983, starting at the end of World War II and continuing on into
the 1960s) and then moving backward through history to the era of World
War I (The Man Who Loved Mata Hari, 1985) and then to the period of the
American Revolution (The Traitor, 1987), about the discovery of a mole
within the highest command levels of George Washington's army of
revolution. His other novels include The Mole, Riddle, Swann, and King
Jaguar.
