Hawker's Revolution

'The heavy door slammed shut and I was left in pitch darkness. I was confined alone in a damp and filthy dungeon under sentence of death, and tomorrow I would be dragged unshriven, friendless, and despised into the market place and guillotined as an English spy in front of a baying crowd of sans-culottes. Seven long, miserable hours remained to me, to sit and shiver and weep and pray in the foul-smelling darkness with no hope of reprieve or remission or rescue.' Sir Rupert Hawker, a...
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'The heavy door slammed shut and I was left in pitch darkness. I was confined alone in a damp and filthy dungeon under sentence of death, and tomorrow I would be dragged unshriven, friendless, and despised into the market place and guillotined as an English spy in front of a baying crowd of sans-culottes. Seven long, miserable hours remained to me, to sit and shiver and weep and pray in the foul-smelling darkness with no hope of reprieve or remission or rescue.' Sir Rupert Hawker, a young English aristocrat, travels to France in the middle of the French Revolution in the vain hope of saving from the guillotine the lovely Mademoiselle Hortense de Fontenelle, the charming lady with whom he has fallen in love, only to find himself at the mercy of a devious and execrable pack of Gallic villains. Can the English Baronet really convince the revolutionaries that he is an envoy of President George Washington of the U.S.A.? Not a chance!The latest instalment of the Hawker Chronicles covers the turbulent years from 1788-1793 and features the last days of the Court of Versailles, the Fall of the Bastille, and the Reign of Terror, as Hawker meets, amongst others, Queen Marie Antoinette, Danton, Robespierre and the insane revolutionary poet Fabre d'Eglantine.