num_pages: 224
description: Part high-octane suspense part dire warning The Eagle and the Viper from multiple-winning novelist Loren D. Estleman reveals how close our world cameat the dawn of a promising new centuryto total war.Its a time of improvised explosive devices terrorist training camps international assassins and war on civilians. Its Christmas Eve 1800. This much is history: On Christmas Eve 1800 an infernal machine exploded in one of the busiest streets in Paris France destroying buildings and killing innocent civilians. It wasnt the first attempt on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte First Consul of the newly minted Republic of France.This much is exclusive to our story: Upon the failure of the Christmas Eve plot the conspiracy takes a new and more diabolical turn.Posterity knows what became of Napoleon: He led France into a series of military adventures that ended in his defeat followed by decades of peace. But this future hung on a precarious thread. One man can make history; another can change it.At the Publisher's request this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
language: English
title: The Eagle and the Viper
publisher: Forge Books