Contents

Introduction

1 Bedroom Scene

2 In Flagrante Delicto

3 ‘… or Else!’

4 Paris 1814

5 Pastures New

6 Caught Out

7 Ruined

8 The Final Blow

9 An Enemy from the Past

10 The Bonapartes

11 The Imperial Exile

12 The Great Gamble

13 The Road to Paris

14 Of Hedging Bets

15 Tumult in Paris

16 An Emperor in Chains

17 The Die is Cast

18 Roger’s Greatest Coup

19 Battle and Chance Encounter

20 Threat of Final Ruin

21 Sold Out

22 Race Against Time

23 Do You Remember?

The Roger Brook Saga

A Note on the Author