num_pages: 348
description: The year is 1803. Swashbuckling ribald and irreverent hero Ethan Gage has outsmarted wily enemies and survived dangerous challenges across the globe from the wilds of the American frontier to the pyramids of Egypt. Now the rakish hero finds himself in the Caribbean with his wife Astiza on a desperate hunt to secure the lost treasure of Montezumaa legendary hoard rumored to have been hidden from Corts's plundering Spanish conquistadors. Hot on his heels are British agents who want the gold to finance a black slave revolt in Saint-Domingue robbing hostile France of its richest colony. The French too seek the treasure for the secrets it contains the key to an incredible new means of invasion that can ensure Britain's defeaton its own land.Caught between the French and the rebel slave forces Ethan and Astiza are in a race for gold and glory that will thrust them into the center of a bloody struggle for freedom as they try to rescue their son. And this time Gage's luck may be running out.Brilliantly combining science history mythology and wit William Dietrich has woven a larger-than-life tale that sees Ethan embroiled in the Napoleonic era's ideals opportunism and inventions which gave rise to the modern world. Filled with intrigue voodoo a hurricane violent political unrest and unexpected passion The Emerald Storm is Dietrich's most captivating work to date.
language: English
title: The Emerald Storm
publisher: Harper