The King’s Jackal

At Tangier’s Hotel Grand Bretagne, two guards sit with drawn swords outside a sleeping king’s door while his allies gather money to win back his throne. Then Countess Zara strides onto the terrace with “good news,” and the exiled King Louis wakes.

Palms screen the hotel from the city, but beyond its terrace the Mediterranean gleams—and a plot to restore the King of Messina is taking shape. Baron Barrat has returned with funds and volunteers; Zara has been on a mission of her own, and Prince Kalonay and Father Paul are close behind her. Yet Louis’s former supporters have reason to doubt him, and the republic will not surrender a crown without a struggle. With ambition, old loyalties and a king’s uneasy charm in play, can this unlikely company turn its scheme into a return to power?

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