On a summer night in 1812, a boy sets fire to a house in Paris
before escaping over the rooftops. Carrying vital intelligence
about Napoleon's Russian campaign, he heads for England. But
landing in Kent, he is beaten almost to death. The Foreign
Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, is desperate for the boy's
information. He is even more desperate, however, to track down the
boy's assailant - a sadistic French agent who knows far too much
about Castlereagh's intelligence network. Captain George Shuster is
a veteran of the Peninsula, an aide-de-camp to Wellington, now
recalled from the continent and struggling to adjust to civilian
life. Thomas Jesuadon is a dissolute, living on the fringes of
society, but with an unrivalled knowledge of the seamy underside of
the capital. Setting out to trace the boy's attacker, they journey
from the slums of London to the Scottish coast, following a trail
of havoc, betrayal, official incompetence and murder. It takes an
unlikely encounter with a frightened young woman to give them the
breakthrough that will turn the hunter into the hunted. Meanwhile,
the boy travels the breadth of Europe in the wake of the Grande
Armee, witnessing at first hand the ruination they leave behind and
the awful price of Napoleon's ambition. This companion to M.M.
Bennetts's brilliant debut, May 1812, is a gripping account of
deception, daring and determination, of intelligence and guile
pitted against brutality. Bennetts brings to vivid life the
harrowing devastation wrought on the civilian populations of Europe
by Napoleon's men, and the grit, courage and tenacity of those who
stood against them.
General
Imprint: |
diiarts.com
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2010 |
Authors: |
M.M. Bennetts
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Dimensions: |
220 x 198mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-907386-24-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
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LSN: |
1-907386-24-6 |
Barcode: |
9781907386244 |
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