The Black Tower

Name: The Black Tower
Brand: William Morrow & Company
SKU: 9780061173516-V
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By Louis Bayard

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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
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 384
Publisher:: William Morrow & Company
Publication Date:: 2009-10-13
ISBN / EAN:: 9780061173516
Weight:: 483 g
Dimensions:: 13/20/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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