Rebellion
Subtitle: a thriller in Napoleon's Paris
By: James McGee
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9781605984933
Subjects: Attempted assassination; Private investigators; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) fast (OCoLC)fst01032683; History; British; Fiction
Description: October, 1812. Britain and France are still at war when Bow Street Runner and former private investigator Matthew Hawkwood, now of the British Secret Service, joins a colleague in Paris on a special mission to successfully negotiate a peace treaty between France and the allies. Failure would mean prison, torture and a meeting with the guillotine.