TY - BOOK AU - Gale, Iain, TI - Conspiracy T2 - James Keane series SN - 9781848664845 AV - PR6107.A43 U1 - 823.9/2 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Heron Books KW - Special forces (Military science) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Fiction KW - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 KW - Historical fiction KW - fast KW - War stories N2 - It's 1812, and one man is on the top of the world. Napoleon Bonaparte has enjoyed victories all over Europe and is rebuilding the glorious city of Paris. Meanwhile, his enemies struggle to keep alive the embers of rebellion that still burn at the city's heart. To aid this noble cause, a few British intelligence officers have been smuggled in, and James Keane is one of them. Keane finds himself at once adrift in a world of gambling houses and derelict cemeteries - of ex-Jacobites, disaffected French royalists, Irishmen and Americans, all of them voicing dissension. If Keane is to succeed, a means must be discovered by which to persuade these miscreants to rise against Napoleon's rule, without alerting the endless spies and informers that surround them ER -