"A superbly elegant novel" (Susan Holloway Scott, author of The French Mistress) from the author of Mistress of the Revolution.
After First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte survives an assassination attempt, Chief Inspector Roch Miquel, a young man with a bright future and a beautiful mistress, must arrest the assassins before they strike again. But in a city with royalists and revolutionaries alike conspiring to overthrow Bonaparte, Roch's task is near impossible. And when his own father faces the guillotine, Roch has no choice but to trust those most likely to betray him.
- ISBN10 110143712X
- ISBN13 9781101437124
- Publish Date 1 July 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint New American Library
- Format eBook
- Pages 352
- Language English