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Within this latest experience by New York Times best-selling author William Dietrich, Ethan Gage is out to foil Napoleon's coronation as emperor, play double agent between France and England, and change the tide of war - while wanting to save his own life and his marriage. Gage fought beside Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt and was his agent in Italy, America, and Greece. But this romance, which at the best of that time period was uneasy, has gone sour, and today Ethan wants to make Napoleon purchase kidnapping his child, Harry, and practically killing his wife, Astiza. Smuggled into France with a beautiful royalist agent, Gage is determined to thwart Bonaparte's ambitions to adopt Europe. Surprises abound as a conspiracy collapses, Astiza reappears at Gage's part, and realtors on all fronts make an effort to recruit Ethan with their cause. Desperate, he devises a mad plan to sabotage Napoleon's coronation by swapping the power-hungry emperor's crown of fantastic laurel with a spiritual relic - the Crown of Thorns purportedly worn by Christ at his crucifixion. It really is a scheme that will require a daring fraud, perfect timing, and trust among the list of plotters; when it will go awry, Gage is soon away from home to England. There Ethan joins a circle of outstanding renegades, including Robert Fulton, custom made of the first submarine; rocket artillery pioneer Sir William Congreve; and smuggler Tom Johnstone. As two empires face off at sea, Gage is plunged in to the decisive and lethal Battle of Trafalgar, captured up to speed a French dispatch as Nelson's Victory bears down on him. Moving from the glittering boulevards and squalid again alleys of Napoleonic France to the high seas of Regency England, filled with love, danger, intrigue, and glory, The Barbed Crown is an exciting romp that perceives Ethan Gage once again embroiled in Western history...and the destiny of the modern world.
