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Title: The Emperor's Agent
Author: Jo Graham
Narrator: Anne Hancock
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-29-14
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Romance, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Courtesan, actress, medium - spy.
1805: Europe stands poised on the brink of war.
Elza is content with her life in the demi-monde, an actress and courtesan in the glittering society of France's First Empire, but when her former lover is arrested for treason, Elza is blackmailed into informing on her friends and associates. She has one alternative - to become the secret agent of the most feared man in Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte!
France's invasion of England is imminent, but a spy in the camp of the Grand Army threatens the secret plans. Taking the Emperor's commission to catch the spy means playing the deadly game of spy versus counterspy. However, this is no ordinary espionage, but backed by the power of the witches of England determined to hold England's seawards against invasion. Only an agent who is herself a medium can hope to unravel their magic in time - with the life of the man Elza loves hanging in the balance.
From the theaters of Paris to the sea cliffs that guard the Channel, from ballrooms and bedrooms to battlefields corporeal and astral, Elza must rely on her wits, her courage, her beauty, and her growing talents as a medium for she must triumph - or die!
Members Reviews:
The French is Coming
The Emperor's Agent starts with Elza who is basically a woman beyond her time. Elza has separated from her husband. She was not willing to trade her freedom to remain in a loveless marriage.
Elza is blackmailed into being a spy for Napolean. She has to uncovered the spy who is informing the British of a pending invasion from France. With her lover's Michel in the balance and the one true man she will ever love, she unwillingly accepted the deal.
There is a bit of mysticism involved. Elza is also a medium who can see bits and pieces of the future. She is pitted against the witches of England find the spy.
The narrator Anne Hancock delivers a very good performance of reading the book. The story is a little more complicated. Michel is not of noble class. He has old fashion values. He has married a noble woman after getting her pregnant. He even tried to resist his attraction to Elza and to be faithful to the woman he married. Michel is idealistic that the woman he married should love him back. Yet again Michel is a general even though he is inapt socially.
I also enjoyed that the story filled the background story of the Napolean War and the brilliance of Napolean's war strategy.
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the fiction got lost in overcrowded elements
AudioBook Review:
Stars: Overall: 2 Narration: 4 Story: 2
I really expected to love this story; historical fiction, intrigue, Napoleonic era, a woman serving multiple roles in an era when women were often little more than window dressing, Jo Graham has brought multiple elements into the story that should have had me devouring the story. I love historic fiction, and am always intrigued with stories from all sides, so the opportunity was too good to pass up.
Although the fifth book in the series, this does stand alone as information regarding the heroine, Eliza, is clearly presented. Eliza was orphaned at a young age, married and widowed, and after her husbands death, she is embroiled in several love affairs.
