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There, he meets the urbane henry brooke, who tells him hes to join a colleague in paris on a special mission. All in all i would recommend this book to anyone who likes historical thrillers that tend. Matthew hawkwood goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the napoleonic wars for a french prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse than the gallows. Matthew hawkwood, exsoldier turned bow street runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the napoleonic wars resurrectionist by james mcgee book.
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