Payback in Paris | historical fiction 18th century France
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Description: Historical fiction 18th century France. Payback in Paris
In the Eighteenth Century gjovernments tried to get money for their wars by raking in customs duries for new product such as fine fabrics and and tobaccoe. Immediately smugglers like Mandrin created a shady economy and bloody warfare boke out between the "Farm's" militias and the troops of brigands.
Today’s readers will relate to the failure of elites and growing violence in the years preceding the French Revolution. In The Past Must Die, real and fictional characters compete for wealth, love, and revenge. The story takes place in 1786, a time and place comparable to Andrew Miller’s novel, Pure. Louis Mandrin, a French folk hero remembered in books and films, is a cruel bandit bent on avenging his brother’s execution. His target is the leader of a banker cartel, genius chemist Antoine Lavoisier.
Mandrin draws English miniaturist Richard Cosway and his young wife Maria into his plot. Richard is jealous when Maria falls in love with American Thomas Jefferson and agrees to infiltrate Mandrin into Lavoisier’s home in exchange for an assault on Jefferson. Scenes of extreme wealth and poverty, police surveillance and violence frame these passions and plots.
Payback in Paris | historical fiction 18th century France
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