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, Lieutenant Colonel 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, Lieutenant Colonel Margont,’ have the ring of an epitaph?

Gallic Books

Paperback April 2009 £7.99

978–1–906040–84–0

About the Author

Armand Cabasson

Armand Cabasson was born in 1970. He is a psychiatrist working in the North of France. The Officer’s Prey is the first in the Quentin Margont series of thrillers set in the Napoleonic Wars, published in France in 2002 as Les Proies de l’officier, which received the 2003 Gendarmerie Nationale Thriller Prize. The second in the series, Chasse au loup, was awarded the 2005 Fiction Prize by the Napoleonic Foundation. Armand Cabasson is a member of the Souvenir Napoléonien and has used his extensive research to create a vivid portrait of the Napoleonic campaigns.

Michael Glencross

Michael Glencross lives and works in France as a translator. His most recent translations include The Dream by Émile Zola, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne and The ChâteletApprentice by Jean-François Parot.

Copyright

First published in 2007

by Gallic Books, Worlds End Studios, 134 Lots Road, London,

SW10 ORJ

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