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Arabella’s plans to marry Captain Singh of the Honorable Mars Trading Company collapse when he is seized by the French and shipped to a POW camp on the swampy planet of Venus. Facing an enemy‑controlled world, she must forge links with the charismatic privateer Daniel Fox of the Touchstone and construct a clockwork navigational automaton to breach the French lines. Once aboard Venus, Arabella, Captain Singh, and Fox uncover Napoleon’s scheme for a planetary‑dominating weapon, and must thwart French General Joseph Fouché and his forces to prevent a galactic catastrophe.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: History/Military History
Authors: David D. Levine
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