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The sixth tale of rogue and adventurer Ethan Gage by William Dietrich

Paris‚ the “City of Lights‚” shines — but alongside its splendor is great squalor. Heroic patriotism rubs against mean ambition‚ while grand strategy and back-alley conspiracy are never far apart.

While Ethan spies on the French court‚ his wife‚ Astiza‚ works to sabotage Napoleon’s coronation using the Crown of Thorns‚ a legendary relic said to have come from the Crucifixion itself. But when Napoleon is crowned nonetheless‚ they flee to England.

At Walmer Castle on the English coast‚ Gage joins a daring campaign by Smith‚ Fulton‚ rocket inventor William Congreve and smuggler Tom Johnstone to halt Napoleon’s intended invasion of England — a campaign which leads Ethan to take a role in the Battle of Trafalgar itself …

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