Bastards of the Empire 4

Together they meet Felix Lagrave, an obscure artist who has discovered an original way to make a living. Meanwhile, in Germany, Albina d'Aubrac is involved in tragic historical events before moving to England where she becomes the heroine of a murder case in which she is both the victim and the presumed culprit. Lilian, on the other hand, remains in the shadows. A pro?table shadow where juicy deals are made. He becomes the associate of powerful, greedy and unscrupulous men. He gets richer every day at the cost of fierce jealousies. But the war starts again. Nicolas joins his squadron, covers himself with glory at Austerlitz where he is made colonel. In ?n, he reaches Warsaw, where the violins can already be heard opening the ball at the Radziwill's house... " It is impossible to get tired of Jean-Paul Tapie's historical frescoes, which always combine with great mastery historical facts, an extremely masterful writing without however ever departing from what is undoubtedly the keystone of his success: strong characters torn by issues ranging from the very intimate to the larger than life!" Benoit Migneault, Fugues. 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, with 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. 288 pages in 13.5 x 21 cm format Cover photo © David Vance