The Sons of Judas Book One: A Tale of the Thousand and One Nights - Couverture souple

Ponson Du Terrail, Pierre-Alexis; E. V. Hamett, Sofia

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798192297742

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Twenty years of work. One discovery. Sold out from under him before the night is over.
Paris, 186–. In a laboratory on the île Saint-Louis, with a June storm tearing the sky open over the Seine, the chemist Callebrand finally finds what he has been hunting since he was a young man. He turns to the only person in the world he trusts — Tony, the foundling he took off the street, fed, taught and loved like a son — and tells him.
Within the hour, the secret has been sold for twenty thousand francs.
But that betrayal is only the newest one. Three hundred years ago a prophet of the Lebanon was given up by a man who ate at his table, and the fortune he left behind was walled up in a cave on Cyprus, where it is waiting still. Four bloodlines came out of that night. All four are alive in Paris. All four are owed, and all four owe.
And into the middle of them walks a young woman nobody can place. An English baronet calls her Azalea, for the flower. She corrects him: Alea. The throw of the dice. Fate.
Every man who looks at her is ruined. Not one of them looks away.
Ponson du Terrail called this one a tale of the Thousand and One Nights, and he meant it — a story that arrives in instalments, a manuscript inside a confession inside a single night's conversation, each teller handing off to the next before you are ready. Published in Paris in 1867 and never translated into English until now. Complete and unabridged.
Book One of two. The story concludes in The Sons of Judas, Book Two: Fatal Love. Part of Lost French Thrillers — the forgotten novels of Ponson du Terrail, translated by Sofia E. V. Hamett.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798192297742
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
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