ISBN-13: 9781934757796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str.
It s 1798 and Sir Sidney Smith is languishing in The Temple, France s maximum security prison. For the past two years he had been running the Agence de Paris Britain s primary spy ring in France from his cell. But the authorities are starting to close in. It s time for Sir Sidney to leave; but, to do so, he must stage one of the most spectacular prison breaks in history.
Arriving back in England, Sir Sidney is welcomed as a national hero; but he is far from comfortable in that role. It is with relief, therefore, that he receives a set of orders sending him to Portsmouth for further duty. What he didn t know was that his new duty would involve working with an itinerant musician, by the name of William Parish who happens to be a genius at breaking codes.
Napoleon is massing ships, troops, and supplies at Toulon and a number of other ports. He is clearly planning an invasion; but an invasion of who, where and when, no one knows. The key is a captured message that Parish and Smith must break, but it s encoded in a way that has never been seen before.
From a dreary prison in Paris, to the opulent palaces of Constantinople, to the horror of the Battle of the Nile The Temple will take you on a wild ride through 18th Century history.. "