The works of author William Boyd have been honored with the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards and the Prix Jean Monnet. Both a triumph of literary fiction and a gripping thriller, Waiting for Sunrise vividly evokes early 20th-century Vienna, where a young English actor wades unknowingly into a scandal with a mysterious woman. In less than the space between heartbeats, the Englishman's world is turned upside down-and he soon finds that nothing is as it seems.