Napoleon’s Spy: The brand-new historical adventure about Napoleon, hero of Ridley Scott’s new Hollywood blockbuster
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‘An epic tale that never loses sight of the raw experience of the hero. I loved Napoleon’s Spy’ Simon Scarrow
‘Exciting, immersive, well researched and great fun.’ Giles Kristian
‘Harrowing and totally gripping. A masterclass in writing fiction about real historical events’ Leonora Nattrass, author of Black Drop
Russia, 1812. Has France finally met its match?
On the eve of the invasion of Russia, half-French, half-English Matthieu Carrey finds himself in the ranks of Napoleon’s five hundred thousand strong army. With Tsar Alexander seemingly ill-prepared, a French victory seems certain. The Grande Armée will obliterate everything in its path.
Carrey’s purpose is less clear. Blackmailed into becoming a spy in the emperor’s army, he hopes to follow his lover, a French actress who has gone to work in the Moscow theatre.
As supplies grow scarce and temperatures plummet, the Grande Armée begins to crumble. Caught up in the maelstrom of war, Carrey embarks on an epic journey, while the Russians circle like hungry wolves.
Hundreds of miles lie between Carrey and safety.
To reach it seems utterly impossible.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Orion (25 May 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 7519 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 301 pages |
by mike A.
Very informative. A great and instructive book detailing the hardships the French army endured on their retreat. Don’t take any notice of the title as that is a very faint link!
by Simon Coope
Really enjoyed this book, as normal with Ben Kane. So much detail, it really brought the horror of the whole episode to life. The total indifference of Napoleon to the suffering of the multitude is mirrored time and time again by the elite! The current situation in Gaza is the same. Really makes you think!
Read this book its worth it!!
by Andrew Ritchie
New book by a great author
by Clemens A. Schoonderwoert
This standalone novel, at least that’s what I think this is although this book has an open ending in my view, is mainly about the disastrous campaign by Napoleon’s Grande Armée against Tsar Alexander’s Russia.
At the beginning of the book you’ll an Historical Note about “Duelling”, and two well-drawn maps of the Advance to and the Retreat from Moscow, Russia, by Napoleon’s Grande Armée in AD1812.
At the back of the book you’ll notice an Author’s Note, where you can learn some very useful historical information concerning this period of history.
Storytelling is excellent, the story itself is not as great as his other former fantastic books however, but the description of the Advance and Retreat from Moscow are wonderfully pictured and described in this tale of war and death.
The main character in this story is Mathieu Carrey, half English and half French, who will learn during the disastrous campaign to and from Russia, that life is more than just gambling and living by the odds.
Mathieu will end up in Paris, after a perilous journey, and there he will meet Guillaume and together they will start gambling in the French Salons, when Mathieu is tricked into the French Grande Armée to act as a kind of Spy for England and Russia, while at the same time being a messenger for Napoleon and his close associates during their invasion to and departure from Russia in AD1812.
What is to follow is an easy reading gambling-, love-, and war-story, in which Mathieu will change from a gambling man to a man of conscience and reason after been confronted and witnessing the horrors and deaths of men, women, children, animals, that will make him finally realise that Napoleon is not the mighty conqueror anymore, and so in this very cold winter in Russia and with deaths and diseases galore, Mathieu will need all his wits to survive this horrible ordeal, so that he and his friends can head back to safety alive.
Very much recommended to everyone who love a action-packed story, although for me this is not the author’s absolute best, but especially the main part about the atrocities and horrors happening in this war by Napoleon against Russia is very much worth reading about, and that’s why I like to call this book: “A Very Engaging Secret Messenger”!
by JL
Well Researched different to his other stories but a good read
by Mrs carol Gurney
My husband will enjoy reading this thank you.
by steve topham
Good read
by Amazon Customer
Absolutely brilliant book, and whilst I was aware of this time in history it’s the first time I’d read anything of this nature. Not only was the story fun to read, I felt like I learnt a lot, and the realism created by the author is compelling
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