Virgil Cormack is a dashing English spy who looks more like a highwayman than an English aristocrat. Sent to revolutionary France, the journey has surprises in store for Cormack. The Paris of 1790 is awash with treason and betrayal. The brutality of the mob, the indifference and corruption of the clergy shapes Cormack's task. Becoming hazardous and life-changing in this 18th-century adventure. Cormack treads a dangerous path; allies are not always the people you think they are. Foes may not still be your enemy. In this first book of a trio of Virgil Cormack adventures.

Raymond Best has a love of the 18th century, he has writtenhistorical fiction novels and spends his time researching in the British Library.