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Informationen zum Autor Robert Wilton has held a variety of posts in the British Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office and Cabinet Office. He was advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo in the lead-up to the country's independence, and has now returned there as a senior international official. He divides his time between Kosovo and Cornwall. Klappentext Britain, 1805: Invasion and defeat by the Emperor Napoleon is imminent. An intense, imaginative and darkly atmospheric historical spy thriller - Patrick O'Brian meets John le Carre. 'A sparkling gem of a novel' - M C Scott Vorwort Britain, 1805: Invasion and defeat by the Emperor Napoleon is imminent. An intense, imaginative and darkly atmospheric historical spy thriller - Patrick O'Brian meets John le Carré. 'A sparkling gem of a novel' - M C Scott Zusammenfassung An intense, imaginative and darkly atmospheric historical spy thriller - Patrick O'Brian meets John le Carré. (Previously published as The Emperor's Gold .) July 1805: Napoleon's army masses across the Channel - Britain is within hours of invasion and defeat. Only one thing stands in the way - an obscure government bureau of murky origins and shadowy purpose: The Comptrollerate General for Scrutiny and Survey. And, rescued from a shipwreck, his past erased, Tom Roscarrock is their newest agent. In England, the man who recruited Roscarrock has disappeared, his agents are turning up dead, and reports of a secret French fleet are panicking the authorities. In France, a plan is underway to shatter the last of England's stability. Behind the clash of fleets and armies, there lies a secret world of intrigue, deception, treachery and violence - and Roscarrock is about to be thrown into it headfirst.
