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Rafael Sabatini Dustjacket Gallery |
| Venetian Masque |
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Illustrator: N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
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Venetian Masque |
| Bonaparte had rallied the remnants of his beloved Army of Italy and hurled it victoriously against Alvinzy on the bloody field of Arcola. The little corporal's shadow lay across Venice. The days of the Most Serene Republic were numbered. Monsieur le Vicomte is a remarkable man - not least because, for all concerned, he had been guillotined along with numerous French aristocrats. Yet by some twist of fate he managed to escape and seek refuge in Turin, out of the jurisdiction of the French authorities. Intrigue and sudden death moved through the piazzas and the canals. It was a time of violence; it was a time of foreboding. It was more especially a time when a man with a supple wrist and a stout heart could write his own page of history. And it was just such a hero as this that Sabatini follows on his perilous secret mission to Venice. Shadowed by spies, set upon by hands of assassins, suspected yet feared by the men in power, Marc Antoine, like the redoubtable Scaramouche, had only his quick sword and his consummate skill for bluffing between himself and destruction. |
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