The bastards of the empire

his parents and one of his brothers are arrested: he will never see them again. Then, for Nicolas, begins a life of wandering. His path passes through the boarding school of Senançay, where he meets the surprising La Vibraye and his Conqueror; he comes close to the foot of the scaffold, in the company of the brother Chanceaulme; he crosses the path of a band of crooks among whom he discovers Lilian - and there, his life suddenly changes. Together, Lilian and Nicolas set out on the road in search of their destiny. The adventurous and perilous destiny that awaits, in the four corners of Europe, all the bastards of the Empire. Jean-Paul Tapie Author of more than thirty novels, including Dolce Roma (Grasset), Le bal des soupirs (La Table Ronde), Le désir du cannibale (Robert Laffont), Le fils de Jean (Gallimard) and, at H&O, Dix petits phoques, Le garçon qui voulait être juif, Le cirque de la solitude, Un goût de cendres, Le chasseur d'antilopes, Ils m'appelaient Fanchette, L'homme qui lisait Henry Miller, Schlomo and De l'autre côté de la frontière. He is also the author, still with H&O, of two historical sagas, Dolko (in four volumes) and the trilogy Amaury, Bertrand, Tobias. 272 pages in 13.5 x 21 cm format Cover illustration © Didier Florentz.