The Rising Storm

by Dennis Wheatley

Roger Brook (3)

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Apr 1789 - Jul 1790At Fontainebleau all seems peaceful and serene, with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette secure on their thrones. Yet as Roger Brook arrives on a secret and vital mission for Prime Minister Pitt, the smell of blood, Revolution and Terror is already in the air.Intrigue, violence, suspicion - this is the maelstrom into which Roger is plunged at once. But with it: love. Isabella D'Arana is beautiful, Spanish - and married. Laws and conventions must be defied if he is to have her. show more With his love story folding into his professional affairs, Police and agents must be outwitted if he is to achieve his secret mission. show less

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Canonical title*
Stormen kommer
Original title
The Rising Storm
Alternate titles*
Mannen som dödade kungen, del 1
Original publication date
1949
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Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance
DDC/MDS
839.78Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesOther Germanic literaturesSwedish literatureSwedish miscellany
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PR6045 .H127Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960

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