The winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise, "The Battle" is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat. 2 maps.

Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation brings Dumas's original to buoyant life.
Four men the young Gascon D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are ready to sacrifice everything, from their purses to their lives, for the common good. Propelled by the wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and the magnetic Milady de Winter, the devoted friends adventure across seas and over rooftops, from masked balls to a medieval prison, to defend the honor of the Queen and the life of the King. Dashing, knockabout, romantic, violent,...

Maigret goes up against a group of American gangsters and finds he just might have met his match. The thirty-ninth book in the new Penguin Maigret series.

In Maigret's latest adventure, the Inspector learns that his hapless colleague Lognon is being menaced by some notorious American mobsters, and he makes it his mission to bring them to justice, despite threatening warnings that he is out of his depth. As the stakes get higher, Maigret must rely on intel from his FBI friend in Washington, D.C., as well as his own ingenuity, to smoke the Americans out before they can complete the...