The hour of parade
By: by Alan Bray
Publisher: Alan Bray
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Hampshire?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781490463223
Subjects: Revenge; Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; History
Description: "One violent act draws together three very different people in Alan Bray's haunting debut, The Hour of Parade. The year is 1806, and Russian cavalry officer Alexi Ruzhensky journeys to Munich to kill the man responsible for murdering his brother in a duel, French officer Louis Valsin. Already thwarted once at the Battle of Austerlitz by Valsin's lover, Anne-Marie, Alexi has been told by his father not to fail again. Obsessed by the main character in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel Julie, Alexi becomes romantically entangled with a beautiful and passionate young Bavarian woman. He hides his true identity and befriends Valsin and Anne-Marie, only to find that he has no thirst for blood. As the three grow closer, tensions mount as Alexi and Anne-Marie desperately try to resist their growing attraction. But as the novel comes to its explosive conclusion, Alexi will learn that revenge cannot be forgotten so easily"--Page 4 of cover.