Longwood House, St. Helena · Anno 1821 · 15°57′ S
A fallen Emperor. A stolen ship. A new empire rises.
Napoleon Bonaparte is a prisoner of the British, destined to die on a desolate rock. Instead he escapes, not to return to France, but to conquer the one thing the British believe they own: the Sea.
All eight volumes are included with Kindle+.
What if
The greatest military mind in history didn't die on a desolate rock?
From the pirate dens of Tortuga to the jungles of the Yucatán, he assembles disillusioned British veterans, American privateers and old-world pirate kings into a new kind of empire, one built on salt, iron, and the genius of the Corsican Corsair.
The voyage in eight volumes
From the Age of Sail to the Age of Iron
Read in order, the saga follows Napoleon from his midnight escape to an empire that learns to outlive its Emperor.
- Volume I
The Saint Helena Breach
St. Helena · 1821
A fallen Emperor. A stolen ship. A new war for the world's oceans.
He subverts his own guards, seizes HMS Northumberland and vanishes into the South Atlantic, outmaneuvering the Royal Navy's Iron Ring.
- Volume II
The Corsican Corsair
Tortuga · The Spanish Main
The Exile is over. The Empire has begun.
A ragtag pirate fleet against a secret British weapon, steam power, and an espionage mission to steal the fire of the future.
- Volume III
The Emperor of the Gulf
The Yucatán Peninsula
The Sea was the road. The Jungle is the battlefield.
A Confederation of the Gulf carved from the Spanish Empire, a Mayan alliance, and the Iron Duke marching in with forty thousand veterans.
- Volume IV
The Star of the West
Texas · 1836
A Dictator in the South. A Giant in the North. An Emperor in the Middle.
Steam-cavalry across the Texas plains, and an ugly prototype, the Marengo, against the legendary USS Constitution.
- Volume V
The War of the Three Emperors
The Gulf · 1838
The King in the North. The Queen in the East. The Emperor in the South.
The Pastry War hands him a navy, the British Empire declares war, and the primitive submarine Nautilus prowls the lagoons.
- Volume VI
The King of the Dead
Palenque · 1840
The Man is dying. The Legend must live forever.
A Prince, a bureaucrat and a Mayan warlord vie for the sceptre while a white dome rises above the jungle: the Tomb of the Eagle.
- Volume VII
The Empire of the Mind
Palenque · 1841
The body rots. The machine rules.
The Ghost Emperor builds a surveillance state, and the steam ironclad Napoleon II sails for New York Harbor.
- Volume VIII
The Shadow of the Eagle
Palenque · May 1842
The man is dead. The Ogre is immortal.
Forged ledgers and a clockwork telegraph convince the world he still lives, while Galveston burns and a trap closes in the Florida Keys.
The roll of adversaries
Every empire on earth comes for him
The Royal Navy, the Iron Duke, a dictator in the South and a giant in the North. And in the end, the most dangerous enemy of all is the Emperor's own failing body.
- Vol. IIAdmiral Cochrane"Butcher" Cochrane, with a secret weapon: steam.
- Vol. IIIThe Duke of WellingtonThe only man who ever defeated the Corsair.
- Vol. IVGeneral Santa AnnaThe self-styled Napoleon of the West.
- Vol. IVPresident JacksonA cold war of blockades and seizures.
- Vol. VCommodore Napier"Black Charlie" and his steam-frigates.
- Vol. VI to VIIITime itselfThe man is dying. The legend must not.
Anno 1821
The horizon is the only border.
Begin with The Saint Helena Breach and follow the Corsican Corsair across eight volumes, free with Kindle+.
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