Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
November 2011
On Sale: November 8, 2011
464 pages ISBN: 0547577532 EAN: 9780547577531 Kindle: B005LVQZQ6 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Nineteenth-century Europeβfrom Turin to Prague to Parisβabounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created its most infamous document?
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