Author Description

From the pen of Anne Stevens, author of the epic Tudor Crimes series, comes a novel that is vast in scope. Luke Boyd is a Canadian woodsman, who has grown up on the volatile border between his own fledgling country, and the new born United States of America. Caught up in the madness of colonial and Indian wars, he has become a hunter of men; a lone wolf who lives only to wreak vengeance on his enemies.When William McCloud convinces him to take service with the English Crown, and return to Europe, he finds himself caught up in the heady world of Georgian Society, working as a confidential agent for the king, and the nobility he despises. The young Canadian becomes embroiled in a French plot against the king, and strives to understand all that is going on around him.It is the dawn of the nineteenth century, and Europe is changing, for the worse. The shadow of Napoleonic conquest is sweeping across the world, and Luke must do his bit to halt it. He works for William McCloud, the English master spy, and with the mysterious and beautiful Lady Belinda Rourke, a woman with secrets to keep, and secrets to tell. All of English culture is spread out in this lavish novel, with the author's protagonists interacting with the famous of the day.Mad King George demands McCloud's attention, whilst Boyd meets prize fighters, foreign agents, and ladies of easy virtue. In a world on the brink of chaos, the obese Prince of Wales rubs shoulders with a young Beau Brummell, the king's footman, Fortnum, Pitt the Younger, Mr Fox, and the High Society of London, the greatest city in the world. King George, teetering between bouts of madness, sees Luke Boyd as someone unique... his last loyal American.Meanwhile, the author introduces us to a Napoleon Bonaparte hitherto unimagined. The vain little man jumps from bed to bed, whilst plotting the downfall of 'Perfidious Albion', supported by grovelling generals, and a personal servant who acts as the future emperor's Sancho Panza. Violence and mad