The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II

The son of Edmond Dantès rides again. Jules Lermina picks up the thread of Alexandre Dumas' immortal tale, weaving the adventures of Spero Monte Cristo, born in shadows and trained in vengeance, into a labyrinth of intrigue that spans the courts of Europe and the dusty roads of a continent. This sequel asks what happens when the avenger's child must carve his own destiny from the wreckage of his father's war. Spero finds himself entangled with a traveling circus troupe led by the giant Girdel, their caravan a movable world of performers and outcasts, where loyalty is currency and every stop brings danger. When Fanfaro rides into the Black Forest to fetch medicine for his wounded master, he stumbles upon the Marquis of Fougereuse, and family secrets long buried rise to surface like blood from a wound. Fates collide. Old debts come due. The sins of the father pursue the son into a twilight realm where identity itself becomes the ultimate prize. This is adventure fiction of the old school: propulsive, lush with incident, and haunted by the ghost of the greatest revenge story ever told.