The Launching of Roger Brook by Wheatley, Dennis

Gainsborough Press. paperback. Very Good. 6x4x1.

Leopard Books, UK, 1980. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 512 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Leopard Books, UK, 1980. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Remainder mark on page edges. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is the first of Dennis Wheatley's famous historical series in which appears the young man who was afterwards to become Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent: Roger Brook. The scene is the England of George III and the France of Marie Antoinette; the tale is that of the tall, blue-eyed Roger, who set out to seek fame and fortune in the year 1783. He might never have set out at all had it not been for that ravishing creature, the wicked Georgina Thursby, and he most certainly would never have been involved in the secrets of French foreign policy had it not been for the fair Ath nais de… Read More