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Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is also on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. In the meantime, Daniel Connor, a young medical scholar from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes–only to realize that his characters of launch and a present of valuable coral specimens, on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier will depend on, have been stolen by the stunning woman with whom he distributed a stagecoach.
In the fervor and tumult of post revolutionary Paris, nothing is quite as it seems. In trying to recover his lost belongings, Daniel discovers that his beautiful adversary is in fact a philosopher-thief who lives in a shadowy world of outlaws and émigrés. Daniel’s fall into this underworld is also a flight, for as he falls deeply in love with the mysterious coral thief and she draws him into an audacious storyline that will leave him with a future completely different from the main one he has envisioned for himself, Daniel discovers a radical theory of development and mutability that irrevocably changes his conception of the world in which he lives.
The Coral Thief, as riveting and superbly rendered as Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott’s first book, is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, school of thought, and suspense. It conjures up vividly both feats of Napoleon and the achievements of these working without popularity or glory to change our ideas of who we live and the entire world in which we live.
