First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier

The Netherlands, 1623. Percy Blake has a secret. To the downtrodden Protestants hiding from Spanish cruelty, he is Diogenes, a mysterious informant who risks everything to funnel warnings across enemy lines. To the idle aristocracy of The Hague, he is merely Sir Percy, a charming English gallant with more wit than consequence. But when a network of informers begins bleeding dry the underground railway that shelters the hunted, Percy must step from behind his mask of frivolous indolence and become the weapon the resistance never knew it had. This is the story of how a cavalier became a legend: before the Scarlet Pimpernel, before the coded roses and the daring rescues, there was a man who learned that courage wears many faces, and that the sharpest blade is often the one that never leaves its scabbard. Orczy writes with the verve of someone who understands that the best adventures are never about the fight itself, but about what a man will sacrifice to protect those who cannot protect themselves.