Roger Brook – serie

Introducing Roger Brook, ''master spy and gentleman adventurer'' of the Napoleonic Era, in Dennis Wheatley''s famous historical series that spans the years from 1783 through 1815.The year 1783 finds the young Roger Brook fresh out of school and seeking his fame and fortune in France. Spurred on by his admiration for the delectable Georgina Thursby and the fair Athénais de Rochambeau, Brook gets involved in the secrets of French foreign policy, much to the peril of himself and his lady admirers.In this perfect coming of age story we see naivety, love, temptation and adventure propelling us cross-countries, with a host of surprising and unexpected characters."The inventive energy of [Wheatley] is something to marvel at. He displays a fertility of imagination without equal among living writers" - Daniel George, Herald Tribune

Nov 1787 - Apr 1789The Shadow of Tyburn Tree tells the story of Roger Brook – Prime Minister Pitt''s most resourceful secret agent – who, in 1788, is sent on a secret mission to the Russia of that beautiful and licentious woman Catherine the Great. Chosen by her to become her lover, Roger is compelled to move with the utmost care, for if it was known that not only was he spying for two countries but also having an affair with the sadistic and vicious Natalia, he would meet certain death.The story moves to Denmark and the tragedy of Queen Matilda, to Sweden and the amazing ride of King Gustavus to save Gothenborg, and finally back to England where Roger returns to the arms of his one great love, Georgina.

Apr 1789 - Jul 1790At Fontainebleau all seems peaceful and serene, with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette secure on their thrones. Yet as Roger Brook arrives on a secret and vital mission for Prime Minister Pitt, the smell of blood, Revolution and Terror is already in the air.Intrigue, violence, suspicion – this is the maelstrom into which Roger is plunged at once. But with it: love. Isabella D'Arana is beautiful, Spanish – and married. Laws and conventions must be defied if he is to have her. With his love story folding into his professional affairs, Police and agents must be outwitted if he is to achieve his secret mission.

Jun 1792 - Aug 1794The Man who Killed the King tells the story of Roger Brook–Prime Minister Pitt''s most resourceful secret agent–during the Great Terror when more than a million people perished and the Terrorists found that the guillotine did not work quickly enough. This, the second phase of the French Revolution, opened with the storming of the Tuileries in June, 1792, and in the months that followed, the Liberals were mown down by cannon fire, drowned by the thousand, and flung back into the flames of villages burnt to the ground.And amidst all this brutality and bloodshed, Roger Brook, a Commissar in Revolutionary Paris, faced terrifying hazards trying desperately to rescue Queen Marie Antoinette and other members of the Royal Family from a mob thirsting for revenge.

Aug 1794 - Apr 1796Roger Brook – Prime Minister Pitt''s most daring and resourceful secret agent – had sailed for the West Indies with a party that included three beautiful women. His purpose: pleasure. But the Caribbean, blue seas, lush tropical islands and palm-shaded beaches, was infested with pirates. The slaves of the ''Sugar islands'' were in revolt. All this Roger Brook encountered. But also he uncovered a mysterious episode in the early life of the Empress Josephine – a mystery that had its effect on the Parisian intrigues that led to Napoleon receiving his first great command: the Army of Italy. A mystery that tied together many strange scenes and unlikely events.

Roger Brook – ''wanted'' for illegal duelling – sailed for Calcutta in the summer of 1796. With him went his lovely Clarissa. And in Calcutta Clarissa was abducted. Abducted by Rinaldo Malderini, a Venetian senator and a disciple of the Devil, an enemy as vicious and unscrupulous as any that Roger Brook had faced.Through shipwreck, capture by slavers, a desperate night attack on a walled city, Roger Brook seeks his revenge: and achieves it on entering Venice with Napoleon.

Feb 1798 - 31 Dec 1799'Had it not been for Zanthé there is little doubt that at the age of thirty-one Roger Brook would have died in Palestine.' Roger Brook, Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent. Zanthé, exotic, loving and hating with equal intensity; daughter of the Sultan and beautiful.Napoleon's army; victorious in Egypt but trapped by Nelson's fleet, besieging Acre, ravaged by plague. At the heart of the French counsels – Roger Brook. A vital position for England. A deadly dangerous one for him.

1 Jan 1800 - 30 Nov 1805Pauline Leclerc: the loveliest, most licentious woman in Paris – and sister to Napoleon himself.Roger Brook is back in France – playing a deadly game as Prime Minister Pitt''s most daring secret agent.But when he is ordered to console the newly-widowed Pauline he finds that, for once, the calls of duty and passion coincide...

Feb 1807 - Sep 1809The Roger Brook stories continue with his saga through the years 1807-1809. Napoleon is at the height of his powers. By now the complete autocrat, lusting for more power, he had warred against Prussia, Austria and Hanover, struck through Poland, towards the Baltic and into Russia. The needless wars were bleeding France white.Roger Brook, still the most valuable and resourceful of secret agents, moves amongst the centres of power of Europe and beyond, and owing to mischance and intrigue is carried to Turkey, Persia, Portugal and Brazil.But, interwoven with the historical pattern, runs the thread of Roger''s passionate involvement with the lovely Lisala de Pombal – a woman as licentious as she is beautiful – who plays her part in leading him from one desperate situation to another.

Sep 1809 - 1 Jan 1813In 1809 Roger Brook went to Lisbon and became involved in the Peninsular War. While there he first met Lady Mary Ware, with unexpected results for both of them.Later, events carried him to Copenhagen, St. Petersburg and Moscow, which had just been occupied by Napoleon.In Russia he again met Lady Mary and disguised her as his soldier servant. The description of their participation in Napoleon''s terrible Retreat from Moscow in 1812 has rarely, if ever, been equalled.

1812 - 1814The Hell Fire Club is being revived – by a sensuous wanton who calls herself the Irish Witch. Once more the titled of the land are being sucked into its vortex of vice and degradation. And among them is Susan, Roger Brook's young and lovely daughter.Soon it will be Walpurgis Night. Soon a ruined castle will echo to the baying of initiates as Susan is led towards an altar – there to be ritually violated by the Priest of Satan.

1814 - 18151814. The Irish Witch is dead, and Europe at peace. Roger Brook, now Lord Kildonan, is content to divide his time between his young wife, Mary, and his life-long mistress and spirit-companion, Georgina.But as the fashionable world glitters at the Congress of Vienna, the power-hungry Napoleon is about to plunge the continent into war once more. And Mary, possessed by demonic jealousy, is hatching a plot which threatens Roger's fortune – and Georgina's life.Reluctantly, Roger Brook must assume his old identity – as Europe's most daring secret agent.

Secret agent, gallant and aide-de-camp to Napoleon: Roger Brook is the dashing hero in Dennis Wheatley''s historical fiction series. The Roger Brook Series, available for the first time in one digital volume.THE LAUNCHING OF ROGER BROOKTHE SHADOW OF TYBURN TREETHE RISING STORMTHE MAN WHO KILLED THE KINGTHE DARK SECRET OF JOSEPHINETHE RAPE OF VENICETHE SULTAN''S DAUGHTERTHE WANTON PRINCESSEVIL IN A MASKTHE RAVISHING OF LADY MARY WARETHE IRISH WITCHDESPERATE MEASURES