AHAB’S DAUGHTER
Kate Cooper is eighteen, the bookish daughter of Cape Cod puritans alarmed by the force of her beauty. During the summer before university she is sent to Europe on the Grand Tour, despite the misgivings of her lawyer father, a weekend cold-warrior who spends his spare rime defending rhe purity of American airspace from whimsical Russian incursions Trapped on a Greek island by the Cyprus crisis, Kate is exposed to all the decadence of her father's nightmares