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A gripping novel of love and war risk and responsibility. Arcadia Hearne is a war researcher specializing in military intervention. But her immersion in contemporary war is offset by her refusal to put herself at risk and by her insistence on keeping her past at bay.. Ten years earlier in the mid-1980s Arcadia had fled Toronto for London after two university students--rivals for her love--fought a pistol duel over her. Now through the interventions of her sister Lux and her increasingly complicated relationship with a new lover Amir who has secrets of his own Arcadia is forced to confront what really happened on the day of the duel.. Moving from the verdant ravines of Toronto to the secret canals of a gritty vibrant London The Rules of Engagement has an extraordinary sense of time and place. A powerful exploration of the nature of love the novel provocatively explores the crossing of emotional ethical and literal borders.