Wolf Hunt
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Margont found the separation from Luise most painful.
But in one respect at least, the investigation had wrought a positive change in him. Relmyer had proved that one could triumph over one’s past, even if, for him, the triumph had only lasted a couple of hours. He had finally succeeded in escaping his cellar, not only bodily but in spirit as well, and this allowed Margont to escape his own cell. It was Relmyer’s deliverance that allowed Margont to free himself completely from the grip of the memories of his childhood years spent sequestered in the Abbey of Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Armand Cabasson was born in 1970. He works as a psychiatrist in northern France. Wolf Hunt is the second Grande Armée murder investigation, featuring Quentin Margont, set in the Napoleonic Wars. It was awarded the 2005 Napoleonic Foundation Fiction Prize. Armand Cabasson is a member of the Souvenir Napoleonien and has used his extensive research to create a vivid portrait of the Napoleonic campaigns. The Officer's Prey is the first in the Quentin Margont series.
Isabel Reid studied History and French at Oxford university and has lived in France and Geneva. Her most recent translations are Murder on the Eiffel Tower and The Pere-Lachaise Mystery (with Lorenza Garcia), both by Claude Izner.
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COPYRIGHT
First published in 2008
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THE OFFICER'S PREY
A Grande Armée murder featuring Captain Quentin Margont
Armand Cabasson
June 1812. Napoleon begins his invasion of Russia leading to the largest army Europe has ever seen.
But amongst the troops of the Grande Armée is a savage murderer whose bloodlust is not satisfied in battle.
When an innocent Polish woman is brutally stabbed, Captain Quentin Margont of the 84th regiment is put in charge of a secret investigation to unmask the perpetrator. Armed with the sole fact that the killer is an officer, Margont knows that he faces a nearimpossible task and the greatest challenge to his military career.
‘Combines the suspense of a thriller with the compelling narrative of a war epic’ Le Parisian
‘Cabasson skilfully weaves an intriguing mystery into a rich historical background’ Mail on Sunday
'... an enthralling and unromantic account of Napoleonic war seen from a soldier’s perspective’ The Morning Star
"... vivid portrayal of the Grande Armée... ' Literary Review
‘Cabasson’s atmospheric novel makes a splendid war epic ...' The Sunday Telegraph
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MEMORY OF FLAMES
Armand Cabasson
March 1814. Napoleon’s army is outnumbered and struggling to defend France against invasion by the European allies ranged against it. Paris itself is threatened.
When the colonel in charge of the security of Paris is found murdered at home, his face burnt and a fleur-de-lys pinned to his chest, it is clear that Napoleon’s authority is being challenged by royalist plotters.
Who better to call in to uncover the plot than committed republican, Adjutant Quentin Margont? Risking his own life, he must infiltrate the secret royalist society, the Swords of the King. But will he be able to, and why do Talleyrand’s parting words as he sets off on the mission, ‘Good luck, Adjutant Margont,’ have the ring of an epitaph?
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THE SUN KING RISES
Yves Jégo and Denis Lépée
1661 is a year of destiny for France and its young king, Louis XIV.
Cardinal Mazarin, the prime minister who has governed throughout the king’s early years, lies dying. As a fierce power struggle develops to succeed him, a religious brotherhood, guardian of a centuries-old secret, also sees its chance to influence events.
Gabriel de Pontbriand, a young actor, becomes unwittingly involved when documents stolen from Mazarin’s palace fall into his hands. The coded papers will alter Gabriel’s life forever, and their explosive contents have the power to change the course of history for France and Louis XIV.
Fact and fiction combine in a fast-moving story of intrigue, conspiracy and love set in seventeenth-century France.
"... has all the life, spirit and momentum of the best historical novels’ Le Figaro
The heroes of the book are the stars of the era: Moliere, La Fontaine, Colbert... a book to savour’ Paris Match
‘A suspense-filled mystery, a cross between the Three Musketeers and the Da Vinci Code’ Europe 1
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Jean — François Parot
Translated by Michael Glencross
France 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and the Marquises de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime and immorality ...
A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young recruit to the force, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains suddenly come to light, he seems to have a murder investigation on his hands. As the city descends into Carnival debauchery, Le Floch will need all his skill, courage and integrity to unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land.
'A terrific debut ... brilliantly evokes the casual brutality of life in eighteenth-century France’ Sunday Times
‘Jean-Francois Parot’s evocation of eighteenth-century Paris is richly imagined and full of fascinating historical snippets ...’ Mail on Sunday
‘Has all the twists, turns and surprises the genre demands’ Independent of Sunday
‘An engaging murder mystery that picks away at the delicate power balance between king, police and state.’ Financial Times
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