The Three Emperors [Large Print]

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Venice: Ethan Gage has escaped after surviving the naval battle of Trafalgar. His plan: to circumvent the French Empire and rescue his wife, Astiza, and son, Harry, from imprisonment by a ruthless mystic who seeks revenge for disfigurement, and an evil dwarf alchemist who experiments with the occult on Prague's Golden Lane.

Using death as his ruse, Gage seeks an unlikely ally in Jewish Napoleonic soldier Gideon Mandel, who saves Ethan's life at Austerlitz, and Gideon's father, Aaron, a rabbi whose knowledge of legends of the Golem adds another layer to the hunt for the Brazen Head. Meanwhile, Astiza uses her own research to concoct an explosive escape and find a lost tomb, with their tormentors in relentless pursuit.

William Dietrich skillfully weaves intrigue, magic, romance, and danger in a historical thriller that sprints from the fury of the Napoleonic wars to the mystic puzzles of Central Europewhere a medieval machine promises power over the future.

Reviews

"Rousing adventure. . . . The latest rousing adventure from Dietrich shows antihero Ethan Gage, his exotic wife and a varied cast of characters grappling with an especially tumultuous historical period." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Another rip-roaring nineteenth-century adventure that combines historical people and events with imaginative fiction." -- Booklist

"Dietrich's writing style is vivid, lush, and rich. Readers will get the feel of the time period and the places involved. His plots, and his latest is no exception, are fast-paced and filled with derring-do and close escapes. Readers should suspend their disbelief, make popcorn, and enjoy." -- Library Journal

"Ethan Gage is one character in the suspense world that readers have grown to truly love. . . . This is a very busy tale with family, friends, and bad guys jumping from place to place to solve some pretty amazing puzzles that readers will not soon forget. Yet a new Gage story that will have everyone cheering!" -- Suspense magazine

"William Dietrich has created a truly unique hero in Ethan Gage." -- Bookreporter.com

Author Bio

William Dietrich is the author of twelve novels, including six previous Ethan Gage titles: The Barbed Crown, The Emerald Storm, Napoleons Pyramids, The Rosetta Key, The Dakota Cypher, and The Barbary Pirates. Dietrich is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and naturalist. A winner of the PNBA Award for Non-Fiction, he lives in Washington State.