It's the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre's revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly thwarted by the cunning and heroic Pimpernel—in reality, Sir Percival Blakeney. Now, Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife Marguerite once and for all. Lured to France, where the entire town of Boulogne is being held hostage on their behalf, they seem to be hopelessly trapped.

Expect more swashbuckling adventures in this thrilling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), American man of letters, was grandson and great-grandson of presidents of the United States. Born and raised in Boston, he attended Harvard; during the Civil War he was in England, where his father Charles Francis Adams was minister. On his return he taught history at Harvard, edited the North American Review, and, after moving to Washington, published two novels, Democracy (1880, anonymously) and Esther (1884, as ‘Frances Snow Compton’). His ambitious History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison appeared in nine volumes from 1889-91. He subsequently traveled widely in Europe; his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) is an interpretation of the spiritual unity of the 13th century mind, which led to his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams (1907), which describes the multiplicity of the 20th century mind. In his Preface, he invokes the names of Rousseau and Franklin as predecessors in the field of autobiography, and proceeds (speaking of himself in the third person) to analyze the failures of his formal education (which he describes as not only useless but harmful), the complexity of the ‘multiverse’ we now inhabit, and the predicament of modern man in an increasingly technological world.