The Black Tower: A Historical Thriller – Legendary Detective Vidocq Investigates Political Intrigue and the Lost Dauphin in 19th Century Paris (P.S.) Paperback – 1 October 2009
From the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln.In The Black Tower, Louis Bayard deftly interweaves political intrigue, epic treachery, cover-ups, and conspiracies into a gripping portrait of family redemption&;and brings to life an indelible portrait of the mighty and profane Eugène François Vidocq, history&;s legendary investigator. Vidocq. Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818&;and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former medical student living in his mother's Latin Quarter boardinghouse, Hector finds himself dragged into a dangerous mystery surrounding the fate of the dauphin, the ten-year-old son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette presumed to have suffered a cruel death years earlier in Paris's dreaded Temple. But the truth of what happened may be even more shocking&;and it will fall to an aimless young man and the most feared detective in Paris to see justice done for a frightened little boy in a black tower . . . no matter what the cost.
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