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House of Vale: The Selection
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A body removed an hour ago. A Mayfair apartment cleaned for someone who was never supposed to exist. And an investigator who writes four words that begin everything.
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Power isn't given. It's selected.
A founder is summoned to Lake Como by a hidden, multi-generational network that has been quietly orchestrating his life since childhood. He assumes he's being invited in. He is being evaluated.
A conspiracy thriller in the tradition of Michael Clayton, The Firm and Robert Harris.
Patrick Perrine is the author of seventeen books. House of Vale: The Selection is his eighteenth, and his first thriller.
Perrine Publications · October 13, 2026