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Gambler, gaoler, soldier, smuggler, spyman, traitor, thief
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December 2010
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Featuring: Captain George Shuster; Thomas Jesuadon
432 pages
ISBN: 1907386238
EAN: 9781907386237
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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 unrivaled 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.
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