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Chapters (86)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Paris, June 1794
  8. PART ONE
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  10. 2
  11. 3
  12. 4
  13. 5
  14. 6
  15. 7
  16. PART TWO
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  19. 3
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  27. 11
  28. 12
  29. PART THREE
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  42. 13
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  47. PART FOUR
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  59. PART FIVE
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  67. PART SIX
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  80. 13
  81. 14
  82. Postscript
  83. A Ship in Le Havre Port
  84. Acknowledgements
  85. About the Author
  86. About Zephyr

1. Place de la Révolution

2. The Saints-Innocents Safe House

3. On the Pont National

4. In the Jardin des Tuileries

5. At the Top of the Mountain

6. In the Crowd on the Champs de Mars

7. At the Top of the Mountain

PART SIX: Dangerous Remedy

1. Île aux Cygnes

2. The Bedroom, Au Petit Suisse

3. A Town House on the Rue Barbette

4. Palais de Justice

5. Rue Barbette

6. Outside the Au Petit Suisse

7. Rue Barbette

8. Place de la Révolution

9. The Madeleine Church

10. The Crypt at the Saints-Innocents Safe House

11. The Foundations of the Madeleine

12. Above the Madeleine

13. Place de la Révolution

14. The Abandoned Cordeliers Convent

Postscript

A Ship in Le Havre Port

Acknowledgements

About the Author

About Zephyr

Paris, June 1794

Prairial Year II in the Revolutionary Calendar

The Revolution is five years old. King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are dead. Robespierre’s faction controls the revolutionary government and has ushered in the Terror, along with war with England and a burgeoning police state. Over the last eight months the Tribunal has sentenced more than sixteen thousand people to death by guillotine. In May, provincial Revolutionary Tribunals are closed. All prisoners must now be sent to Paris for trial and execution. By June, the city’s prisons are bursting. The future of the Revolution – and a new, free future for the people of France – hangs in the balance.

PART ONE

Desperate Disease

1

The Sky Above the Conciergerie Prison, Paris

15 Prairial Year II

A bullet ripped through the fabric of the hot air balloon, and Ada knew their whole plan had been a terrible mistake. Dangling high above the most notorious prison in Robespierre’s Paris, her faith in the scientific forces holding them aloft seemed suddenly a lot more questionable. The job was simple: rescue Olympe Marie de l’Aubespine, who was being held prisoner before being taken to the guillotine. The plan was anything but. Breaking someone out of the Conciergerie had never been done before. So they’d needed to do something no one had ever tried.

‘If we die, I’m going to kill you.’ Al clung to the wicker basket beside Ada, blond hair whipping around his pale, pinched face as the hot air balloon lurched violently.

Stomach in anxious knots, Ada yanked on several ropes and pulleys at once, sending them bobbing slantways over the rooftops. ‘If you don’t start helping, Al, I’ll kill you first.’