The Painted Veil
Penguin Books
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong Unsatisfied by her marriage she starts an affair with charming attractive and exciting Charles Townsend But when Walter discovers her deception he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China where a cholera epidemic rages
