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Item Details
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THE EMPEROR'S GOLD
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| By: |
Robert Wilton |
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Hardback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1848878370 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781848878372 |
| Publisher: |
ATLANTIC BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2011 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Series: |
The Archives Of The Comptrollerate-General For Scrutiny And Survey |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
An intense, imaginative and darkly atmospheric historical spy thriller set in 1805, when Britain was within hours of invasion and defeat by Napoleon. O'Brian meets le Carre with a nod towards Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'A sparkling gem of a novel; not only a gripping espionage thriller that has the extra thrill of being grounded in genuine history, but a beautiful, lyrical novel alive with the sheer joy of language. Literate, intelligent, utterly captivating. Not since Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' has a novel been so drenched in a sense of time and place - and this has a plot that blows all comers out of the water.' - M C Scott |
| Synopsis: |
July 1805: Napoleon's army masses across the Channel - Britain is within hours of invasion and defeat.Only one thing stands in the way - an obscure govenement bureau of murky origins and shadowy purpose: The Comptrollerate General for Scrutiny and Survey. Behind the clash of fleets and armies, there lies a secret world of intrigue, deception, treachery and violence.Which is precisely why the Comptrollerate exists...Into this feverish environment comes a dead man. Pulled half-drowned from a shipwreck, his past erased, Tom Roscarrock is put to work for the Comptrollerate and thrown headfirst into a bewildering world of political intrigue and violence.In France, a plan is underway to shatter the last of England's stability. In England, the man who recruited Roscarrock has disappeared, his agents keep turning up dead, and reports of a secret French fleet are panicking the authorities.His life in danger and his motives increasingly suspect, Roscarrock must pursue the complex conspiracy across England and then into the heart of Napoleon's France, there to confront the greatest mystery of all... |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Corvus |
| Prizes: |
Winner of HWA/Goldsboro Crown for Debut Historical Fiction 2012 |
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Returnable |
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