May 1812

In the war against Napoleon, there are no easy victories.

1812.  Europe has been at war for twenty years. Britain stands alone against the greatest threat to peace the world has ever known, at daily risk of a French invasion and revolution.  In London, a handful of men struggle to protect their country and maintain the war effort.  Among them, the Earl of Myddelton, code-breaker to the Foreign Office, strives to crack the most difficult French code yet—the Grand Chiffre—before still more men die on the battlefields of Europe.

Then, on 11 May 1812, the unthinkable happens—the Prime Minister is assassinated.  Amid widespread panic and fear of a French conspiracy, the government falls.

From the ballrooms of London, to the backstreets of power, to the death-in-waiting coast of enemy France, Myddelton is drawn inexorably into the deepening crisis—his private life unravelling all the while, as misunderstandings, gossip and spite mar his marriage and threaten to destroy his career.

Stop Press:  Of Honest Fame by M. M. Bennetts, the second of four novels set in this period, will be published by Diiarts in October 2010. 

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May 1812 reviewed by the Historical Novel Review: "...historical fiction aficionados will appreciate the research and detail that has clearly gone into this work. The characters are compelling, the time and place are rendered vividly, and the colorful dialogue puts the reader smack in the middle of the scene.  For me, the historical backdrop was immediately gripping; however, it was the evolution of Myddleton’s character from a callow cad to a seasoned adult that brought the story to life."  

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