Did the British government, in the guise of a young first lord of the Admiralty named Winston Churchill, cleverly conspire in the successful 1915 torpedoing of the luxury liner Lusitania by a German U-boat as a pretext for inveigling America into the First World War? The subtitle of the book is A novel of the Lusitania, inspired by true events and that fact establishes the novel’s credibility as a political thriller attempting to answer of one of the 20th century’s biggest geopolitical mysteries. It’s a heady literary confection, but Izzo pulls it off handily. In her new book Seven Days in May, novelist Kim Izzo has crafted something of a literary hybrid - equal parts romantic melodrama, high-minded political thriller and the kind of thinly-veiled high-society roman-à-clef that used to mint millions for the late Vanity Fair scribe Dominick Dunne.
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