The Eagle and the Viper

Part high-octane suspense, part dire warning, The Eagle and the Viper from Spur Award-winning novelist Loren D. Estleman reveals an alternative history of how close our world cameat the dawn of a promising new centuryto total war. Its a time of improvised explosive devices, terrorist training camps, international assassins, and war on civilians.

Its Christmas Eve, 1800. This much is history On Christmas Eve, 1800, an "infernal machine" exploded in one of the busiest streets in Paris, France, destroying buildings and killing thirty-five people. It wasnt the first attempt on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the newly minted Republic of France.

This much is exclusive to our story Upon the failure of the Christmas Eve plot, the conspiracy takes a new and more diabolical turn. Posterity knows what became of Napoleon He led France into a series of military adventures that ended in his defeat, followed by decades of peace. But this future hung on a precarious thread.

One man can make history; another can change it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. Winner of three Shamus Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, four Spur Awards and many other literary prizes.

He lives outside Detroit with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.