The Permanent Observer

A temp job at the UN thrusts our unsuspecting heroine into international intrigue and stirs up complicated feelings for her eccentric boss, hero of a bygone era, cloaked in mystery and pipe smoke.  “R. K. Scher's voice is a completely new thing, funny, knowing, strange. The Permanent Observer… a joy to read.” - Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm and Hotels of North America  Sarah Cunningham is a permanent temp, never staying in the same job more than a few months, until now. Her new gig has her restless nature ensnared in a bizarrely personal web of international intrigue: working for a UN Permanent Observer, the eccentric Ambassador de Fluvia, who also happens to be a Knight of the ancient Order of Malta. What will become of the downtown poet she's always been when her day-job eclipses her creative ambitions? The more Sarah gets to know the fanciful yet very real worlds of the Knights of Malta and the United Nations, the less she seems to know herself; the more she understands h