num_pages: 232
description: Swordfights lust betrayal murder: just another day for a henchman.Jasper Detchard is a disgraced British officer now selling his blade to the highest bidder. Currently that's Michael Elphberg half-brother to the King of Ruritania. Michael wants the throne for himself and Jasper is one of the scoundrels he hires to help him take it. But when Michael makes his move things dont go entirely to planand the penalty for treason is death.Rupert of Hentzau is Michael's newest addition to his sinister band of henchmen. Charming lethal and intolerably handsome Rupert is out for his own endswhich seem to include getting Jasper into bed. But Jasper needs to work out what Ruperts really up to amid a maelstrom of plots swordfights scheming impersonation desire betrayal and murder.Nobody can be trusted. Everyone has a secret. And love is the worst mistake you can make. A retelling of the swashbuckling classic The Prisoner of Zenda from a very different point of view.
language: English
title: The Henchmen of Zenda
publisher: KJC Books