The Elusive Pimpernel

Paris has barely paused to catch its breath between executions when its leaders propose a new religion—and a beautiful woman to serve as its goddess. In September 1793, even terror needs a spectacle.

Baroness Orczy’s historical adventure opens in a France consumed by revolution, where the guillotine is never far from the public festivities and suspicion can be as dangerous as a blade. Sir Percy Blakeney, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel, soon finds himself drawn into a trap devised by French agent Chauvelin, with his wife Marguerite caught in the peril. To save her, Percy must venture into a country where every disguise may conceal an enemy and every step may lead closer to the scaffold. Can the Pimpernel outwit the man who means to make him pay at last?

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