The Carton Chronicles by Keith Laidler

The Carton Chronicles by Keith Laidler

Morose, cynical and given to drink, Sydney Carton is one of Charles Dickens' most famous characters; a dispassionate man, yet capable, in the final moments of 'A Tale Of Two Cities', of sacrificing himself beneath the guillotine for Lucy, the woman he both loved and lost.

It now appears, however, that Dickens was being somewhat economical with the actualitE. Newly recovered documents, written in Carton's own hand, tell a far different tale. Sydney Carton survived his execution, only to find himself at the mercy of the monstrous Robespierre, author of the Paris Terror. His love Lucy languishes in a French prison, her husband dead, and Carton can ensure her survival only by becoming Robespierre's personal spy. Reluctant, terrified and often drunk, Carton blunders his way through the major events of the Revolution, grudgingly partaking in some of the blackest deeds of the Terror and, by a mixture of cowardice, bravado and luck, lending a hand in the fall of most of its leading figures. Kidnapped by the British, he finds himself a double agent, trusted by neither side. Carton's outrageous memoirs record the slow decay of revolutionary ideals and, in passing, cast light on the true parentage of that sadistic villain of 'Tom Browne's Schooldays', the beastly Flashman.

Laidler, Keith: - Keith Laidler earned his PhD raising a baby Orang-utan as a human infant, and trying to teach it to talk. He followed this with a 3-year stint as writer-producer for Anglia TV's renowned 'Survival' series, when he visited various exotic locations including the Caribbean and the mountains of Oman. Since that time, Keith has earned his living as a freelance writer and film producer, producing award-winning documentaries for the BBC and National Geographic, and penning books on Pandas, Giant Otters, the Turin Shroud, our present-day Surveillance Society, a Chinese Empress and a psychopathic Madagascan Queen. During the course of these adventures he has spent time with the SAS, visited forbidden vaults in Tibet, been lost in the rainforest for three days, mugged, attacked by killer bees, arrested by secret police, and threatened with execution by a drunken soldier during a Ghanaian coup. Keith is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a past member of the Scientific Exploration Society.

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ISBN 13	9781907523014
ISBN 10	1907523014
Title	The Carton Chronicles
Author	Keith Laidler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Aziloth Books
Year published	2010-03-14
Number of pages	240
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