Following Napoleon's successful invasion of England, Jacques d'Archambeau, an injured cavalry officer on secondment to the police, must investigate a plot to assassinate the Emperor.
1806. Napoleon has invaded England. His brother, Joseph, is to be crowned king at Westminster Abbey. The English are sullen, drunken and resentful of their new masters. The Scots are in open rebellion, encouraged by the exiled British Royals. The French Empire has never been so large, nor so vulnerable.
Jacques d'Archambeau is an injured colonel of hussars. Having lost an arm and an eye at the decisive Battle of Tunbridge Wells, he is on secondment to the Imperial Gendarmes. One foggy evening an anonymous Englishman is shot in Southwark whilst fleeing from a French patrol. Jacques is assigned to investigate.
Rapidly uncovering a plot to kill the Emperor and sabotage the coronation, Jacques must overcome his wounds and his resentment at the loss of his regiment and defeat the plotters. Alongside his superior officer, Marshal Ney, Jacques races through the grimy streets of London tracking down the shadowy gang of rebels known as The Ten.
Jacques and Ney face numerous hazards on their mission, not least the dark secret of Jacques's own past.
THE BLOOD AND THE FOG is a fast-paced adventure novel that will appeal to fans of Bernard Cornwell and Robert Harris alike.