Half Moon Street by Paul Theroux

In the shadows of London’s elite, desire and deceit walk hand in hand.

Lauren Slaughter, a brilliant but underpaid American academic living in London, moonlights as an escort to make ends meet. But when one of her clients turns up dead, her double life spirals into danger. Caught between power, politics, and seduction, she must outwit those who would destroy her.

“Half Moon Street” is Paul Theroux’s sharp, atmospheric novel of identity, ambition, and moral compromise—an elegant psychological thriller that explores the price of freedom in a corrupt world.