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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Grey Man is behind bars. His people are not.Rocambole sits in a cell at Newgate, held under a name that is not his own, waiting for a rope. Scotland Yard believes it has finally caged the most dangerous man in Europe. It has not counted on the small army he left outside.From a garret in Paris to the fog of the London docks, Marmouset takes up the master's work: Milon with his ox-like fists, Vanda the beautiful Russian, faithful Shocking and a band of reformed rogues who would walk into hell on a word from the Grey Man. Their enemies are the Fenian turncoat Sir James Wood and a conspiracy that wants Miss Ellen dead and her fortune buried. Their weapons are disguise, nerve and a stolen map.Because there is a way into Newgate that no living man remembers - a forgotten network of tunnels running beneath Old Bailey, choked with rubble and two centuries of silence. Marmouset means to dig his way to the master's cell, and he has days, not weeks.Rocambole in Prison is the twenty-sixth volume of the saga that gave the French language the word rocambolesque - "wildly, gloriously improbable." First serialized in Paris in 1857, the Rocambole novels were the blockbuster thrillers of nineteenth-century Europe, read by millions, and the direct ancestor of every gentleman-criminal from Arsene Lupin to the modern heist thriller.Now in fresh, modern English - most of it never published in English before.Sofia E.V. Hamett's translation keeps every twist, character and event of the original, but renders it in the natural prose of a contemporary thriller instead of the clipped telegram-style of the serial page. Nothing has been abridged.The story continues directly in The Hangman's Rope. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The last adventure of Rocambole - the book its author did not live to finish.The tunnel is coming down. Rock falls from the vault, the ground roars, and somewhere beneath the Thames Rocambole stands calm in the dark with a pickaxe in his hand and his people behind him. Ahead: a slab of stone sealing the passage like a door. Behind: the police, and the gallows.What follows is the strangest and most feverish story in the whole saga. A hangman's rope, sold as a good-luck charm, becomes the key to a madhouse. A servant crosses the world and survives shipwreck, starvation and a cannibal island to prove that a dead lord is alive. A Scottish inheritance hangs on a convict's false name, a photograph arrives in the morning post, and a man calling himself Mr. Bury dines quietly at a London hotel while the fortune he came for is counted out for him.Through it all moves the Grey Man - older now, graver, playing his last and longest game across the fog of Victorian London, Bedlam, Newgate and the Highlands.An honest word about this volume. Ponson du Terrail was still writing The Hangman's Rope on 18 July 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War broke over France. He fled Orleans to fight the invaders, was hunted, saw his house burned, and died at Bordeaux in January 1871, aged forty-two. The saga stops mid-action, at full speed, and was never resumed. The original French editor's note explaining what happened is preserved at the end of this book. Readers should know they are holding a magnificent unfinished thing.The Hangman's Rope is the twenty-seventh and final volume of the series that gave French the word rocambolesque - "wildly, gloriously improbable" - and gave the world the criminal-turned-avenger who inspired Arsene Lupin.Now in fresh, modern English - never before published in English. Sofia E.V. Hamett's translation is faithful to every plot turn and character, rendered in the natural prose of a modern thriller. Nothing has been abridged. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In a London where nothing and no one is what they seem, the war for Anna's life and fortune turns on a single hidden identity - and Rocambole walks into the enemy's trap with his eyes open.The pursuit reaches its most tangled and treacherous stage. Disguises are layered over disguises, allies may be enemies, and the reformed criminal plays a long, dangerous double game in the heart of the city to draw Milady and her stranglers into the open. Every thread of the London chase - the stolen inheritance, the cult's next victim, the loyalties forged in the underworld - is pulled taut here, setting the stage for a reckoning that can only end where the Thugs began: in India.For readers who love a master of disguise on the side of the angels - the gentleman-thief spirit of Arsene Lupin, the long game of The Count of Monte Cristo.Newly translated by Sofia E.V. Hamett from Ponson du Terrail's original serials, this edition is written in the natural English of a modern thriller: faithful to the plot, the characters and the events, and alive on the page for today's reader. Complete and unabridged.Part IV of Rocambole's Last Word - the saga reaches its climax in Part V. New to the saga? It begins in Book One, The Mysterious Inheritance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A carriage at the gate. A bell that rings twice. And the story starts again in the same second it stopped.Alea has what she came to Paris for, and the men who gave it to her are paying. One is dead in everything but name. One is mad. One is a baronet who worships her and is beginning to understand what that costs. She suspects him of poison. She has hidden a doctor behind the curtain to find out.Then the boulevards fall away.Marseille, and the Canebiere at first light. A brig running east under full sail. And finally Cyprus, and the Caverns of the Plague - galleries floored with three hundred years of human dust, sealed over a dead prophet's treasure that four families have been quarrelling over since before any of them were born. Some of them will reach it. Fewer will come back out.This is the crueller half of the story, and the faster one. Alea gets everything she wants. Everyone who loves her is destroyed by it. And Tony - the assistant who sold his master for twenty thousand francs, the Judas this title has been pointing at from the first page - is still there at the end, still complaining, still owed.The concluding volume of Les Fils de Judas, published in Paris in 1867 and never before translated into English. Complete and unabridged, in fresh modern English, with the author's own present-tense chapters at sea kept exactly as he wrote them.Book Two of two - begin with The Sons of Judas, Book One: A Tale of the Thousand and One Nights. Part of Lost French Thrillers - the forgotten novels of Ponson du Terrail, translated by Sofia E. V. Hamett This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Toulon, 1865. In the convict yard he is only a number: 117. Ten years ago he was the most brilliant criminal in France. Tonight he goes over the wall - not to sin again, but to atone.The man who was branded and sent to the galleys has spent a decade in chains, and the years have burned something new into him. Rocambole escapes the bagne of Toulon a changed man: no longer the villain, but a penitent with a genius that has nowhere left to go but toward the good. Around him he gathers a strange new family - the giant Milon, the fiercely devoted Polish baroness Vanda, a handful of reformed criminals who call him only Master. Under the identity of a Russian noble, Major Avatar, he sets himself a first mission of mercy: to save two orphaned sisters, Antoinette and Madeleine, from the men who murdered their way to their fortune. The talents that once served evil now serve the innocent - but they are the same talents, and Rocambole has never learned to win any way but his own.For readers who love a master of disguise on the side of the angels - the gentleman-thief spirit of Arsene Lupin, the long game of The Count of Monte Cristo.Newly translated by Sofia E.V. Hamett from Ponson du Terrail's original serials, this edition is written in the natural English of a modern thriller: faithful to the plot, the characters and the events, and alive on the page for today's reader. Complete and unabridged.Part I of The Resurrection of Rocambole - the story continues in Part II. New to the saga? It begins in Book One, The Mysterious Inheritance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He has saved her life, hidden her from her enemies, and fallen in love with her. Now, to keep her happy, he must give her to another man - and prove even to his oldest enemy that he has truly changed.The reformed criminal has one victory left to win, and it is against himself. Rocambole loves Madeleine - and precisely because he loves her, he sets out to secure her marriage to the man she has chosen, Yvan Potenieff, standing aside from his own heart to do it. Watching all of this is Baccarat, now Countess Artoff, the one adversary who once brought him down and who has never believed a leopard changes its spots. His redemption will be measured not in schemes or disguises but in sacrifice - while a jealous rival, the murderous Countess Vasilika, prepares to turn a wedding into a funeral.For readers who love a master of disguise on the side of the angels - the gentleman-thief spirit of Arsene Lupin, the long game of The Count of Monte Cristo.Newly translated by Sofia E.V. Hamett from Ponson du Terrail's original serials, this edition is written in the natural English of a modern thriller: faithful to the plot, the characters and the events, and alive on the page for today's reader. Complete and unabridged.Part III of The Resurrection of Rocambole - the saga reaches its reckoning in Part IV. New to the saga? It begins in Book One, The Mysterious Inheritance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. She has lost everything to him, and she means to take everything back - starting with a stolen child. To save an innocent, the man who conquered his own darkness must walk straight back into it, perhaps for the last time.The Countess Vasilika Wasserenoff does not forgive. Beaten and humiliated, she strikes at the softest target she can find: she kidnaps a child to draw Rocambole into a final, personal war. A man who had made peace with his past - even, in his despair, considered ending it - finds one reason left to fight, and throws himself into a last rescue against an enemy as ruthless and inventive as he once was. It is the climax the whole book has built toward: a duel to the death between the reformed criminal and the woman who embodies everything he used to be. When the smoke clears, one of them will not walk away - and even those who loved him best will not agree on whether Rocambole survived.For readers who love a master of disguise on the side of the angels - the gentleman-thief spirit of Arsene Lupin, the long game of The Count of Monte Cristo.Newly translated by Sofia E.V. Hamett from Ponson du Terrail's original serials, this edition is written in the natural English of a modern thriller: faithful to the plot, the characters and the events, and alive on the page for today's reader. Complete and unabridged.Part IV of The Resurrection of Rocambole, and the close of Book Five. New to the saga? It begins in Book One, The Mysterious Inheritance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He was born in a mud-and-wattle hut on the edge of a poacher's pond. He became the law itself, walking about in a pair of boots.Memoirs of a Gendarme is the forgotten masterpiece of Pierre-Alexis de Ponson du Terrail - the most widely read novelist in 1860s France and creator of the legendary Rocambole. Now translated into modern English for the first time as part of the Lost French Thrillers series, this is not a tale of cursed valleys or secret societies. It is something far rarer: a police procedural written in 1867 that reads exactly like one.Jean-Nicolas Sautereau begins life as the fourth son of Martin the Eel, a violent poacher in the savage Sologne. The first ten chapters are the best thing Ponson ever wrote about being poor. Then Nicolas escapes - enlists in the Chasseurs d'Afrique, is captured by the Hadjoutes, and spends a season as a slave in a tribal camp - only to return home and spend the rest of his life arresting men exactly like his brothers.The cases are the body of the book, and they are properly built. A mail driver is shot on the road and the mailbag is empty. A cattle drover disappears somewhere between one market and the next. A family called the Wolves holds a hungry farm for twenty years without ever going hungry. A baroness at the chateau de Beaurevoir has a lady's maid whose cousin is a poacher. Sautereau works them the way a country policeman does: slowly, on foot, by knowing everybody, and by sitting in taverns. He does not moralise. He does not dramatise. And he notices everything.Sofia E. V. Hamett has rendered the novel into the natural English of a modern thriller: faithful to the plot, the characters and the events, but written to feel alive to a reader today. Nothing has been abridged. Distances are in miles, nicknames are translated, and the technical jargon of the gendarmerie has been turned into plain speech. The result is a novel of astonishing modernity, pitiless realism, and quiet, relentless justice.For fans of Les Miserables, C. J. Sansom, and the hard, clear eye of historical true crime. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…