All he wants is a hot bath, a clean cravat, and to never see a dung-heap again. What he gets is a one-way trip to the gallows.
Switzerland. 1791. Conspiracy tears through the Confederacy. WANTED posters plaster every village. A nameless fugitive races for Zürich, clutching a scroll that could prevent war.
Alas, a blow to the head erases his past, his purpose, and - nay! - his common sense, too. Now washed up in a rural backwater hell, he's convinced of one thing alone: he is meant for a life of exquisite luxury, not domestic drudgery. Natch, his past comes a-calling: assassins, bounty hunters, and a French invasion are all closing in. And as he bumbles through ambushes, cannonballs, and disasters aplenty, the ultimate irony dawns: the WANTED traitor may be the fool in the mirror.
Insufferable, blundering, and ludicrously bold, he might just change the course of history - provided his colossal vanity doesn't doom them all first.
"Glory, jest, and riddle of the world!" - Alexander Pope
If you love the deadpan absurdity of Jonas Jonasson's accidental heroes, the gleeful historical mischief of Christopher Moore, and the roguish, anti-hero antics of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman, you'll adore this slow-burn 18th-century intrigue.
