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The Black Tower

By Louis Bayard

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The Black Tower

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From the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln. In The Black Tower, Louis Bayard deftly interweaves political intrigue, epic treachery, cover-ups, and conspiracies into a gripping portrait of family redemption--and brings to life an indelible portrait of the mighty and profane Eugène François Vidocq, history's legendary investigator.Vidocq. Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818--and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former medical student living in his mother's Latin Quarter boardinghouse, Hector finds himself dragged into a dangerous mystery surrounding the fate of the dauphin, the ten-year-old son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette presumed to have suffered a cruel death years earlier in Paris's dreaded Temple. But the truth of what happened may be even more shocking--and it will fall to an aimless young man and the most feared detective in Paris to see justice done for a frightened little boy in a black tower . . . no matter what the cost.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2009-10-13
Publication Date:
2009-10-13
Publisher:
William Morrow & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0061173517
ISBN13:
9780061173516
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
483 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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