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Gabriel Le Brec and Count Filhol de Treguern embark on a scheme to defraud
an insurance company by faking the death of the latter. This sets in motion
a danse macabre of murders, betrayals, people who change their names,
lost birth certificates, false testimonies, an Ann Radcliffe romance,
a Miltonian struggle between Good and Evil and an impossible phantasmagoria
of living men who pretend to be dead and dead men who return to claim
vengeance.
"The whole plot is a duel between two insanely obsessive sorcerers,
Commander Malo Treguern and Dowager Françoise Le Brec. Were it
not for Féval's repeated assurances that Malo has Destiny and
God on his side, while the Dowager is the Devil's pawn, the reader would
surely be at a loss to know which of the two to support."
Cover by Arnaud Demaegd
Published by Black Coat Press in 2006
ISBN: 978-1-932983-70-8
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