Kane and Abel Series

The Kane and Abel trilogy follows two men born on the same day in 1906 into radically different worlds. William Lowell Kane inherits the expectations of a Boston banking dynasty, while the Polish child Władek Koskiewicz survives war, revolution and migration before rebuilding himself in the United States as hotelier Abel Rosnovski. Their parallel rise through finance, property and social ambition turns into a feud that reaches across the First World War, the Great Depression and the Second World War.

The Prodigal Daughter transfers the centre of the story to Abel’s daughter Florentyna and William’s son Richard, whose marriage joins families their fathers tried to keep apart. Florentyna’s career carries the saga into Congress, the Senate and the struggle for the American presidency. Shall We Tell the President? then changes register from family chronicle to political thriller, placing President Florentyna Kane at the centre of a six-day FBI investigation into an assassination conspiracy.