La conjura de Perregaux

Narrative drive and historical accuracy are the main features of this absorbing story of adventures and secrets, which follows the trail of XIXth-century feuilleton . In the Paris of 1806 a conspiracy against the new Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, is in the making. Two years before, Joseph Fouché, the cunning Minister of the Police, succeeded in dismantling a riot against the Consulate, the Republic, and the Emperor himself. No secrets remain out of the watch of the sinister Minister, whom even Napoleon is afraid of. Now, to fight the conspiracy, he calls to his office two unlike characters: a conceited captain of the 5 th regiment of the hussars and a former captain of artillery, who works in the Ministry of War. In five days both of them must follow in the steps of the dangerous Major Perregaux, and stop treason to the Government. Vibrating, full of hidden messages to the reader, this novel means the discovery of a great storyteller. A new author breaks into the panorama of Spanish literature with an intelligent and subtle political plot, in the tradition of Alexandre Dumas.