Glory Beckons

Michel Ney is a Marshal of France, with a fiery mistress who will follow him across battlefields; dedicated to his men, his country and his own legend, he is haunted by a secret that could destroy his master Napoleon. Robert Wilson is a resourceful and sharp-elbowed British officer, driven by his loathing of Bonaparte and determined to win everlasting fame by killing him. Michael Bruce is a disgraced Etonian playboy, young and amoral, and England’s most reluctant recruit. As the unstoppable Grande Armée rampages across Europe these three very different men cross paths time and again in the boudoirs and battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars, fighting, carousing and arguing from Paris to Moscow, London to Lisbon, Stockholm to Salamanca.From the moment Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French to the brink of the invasion of Russia, Glory Beckons is an epic tale of soldiering and seduction. The sequel, Fleeting Glory, takes us to the aftermath of Waterloo. The fate of Europe is at stake, as well as love, honour, life and death, but above all Glory, all dictated by the insatiable ambition, iconoclasm and ego of Napoleon Bonaparte.