By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Seeing that 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced approximately dozen novels and diverse brief tales detailing the lifetime of a personality first brought to the interpreting global as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first meet him in Paris through the reign of Louis XV while he's, it sounds as if, a prosperous, worldly, charismatic aristocrat, envied and wanted by means of many yet absolutely identified to none. actually, he's a vampire, born within the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BC, became in his late-thirties in 2080 BC and destined to roam the area perpetually, observing and taking part in background and, throughout the writer, giving us an awesome standpoint at the time-tapestry of human civilization. within the Palace, Renaissance Florence presents the historical past for this tale of the cave in of the creative and literary lifetime of the town after the demise of San Germano's pal, Lorenzo the really good, through the increase of the fanatical Savonarola.
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He heard voices from outside and peeped back over the cliff. The three Russians were approaching. Like him, they had dismounted. Two of them carried pistols, but Owen knew how primitive their weapons were. The other must have been the one who had fired and would have to reload before he could do so again. Owen squeezed his fingers around the grip of his Dean and Adams revolver and smiled. Five shots without reloading – and only three targets. The men approached the rock fall that had been Owen’s path over the wall.
There must have been over six hundred of them at the beginning. All dead now, probably. Owen slowed his own horse to a canter. The rhythm of the cannon changed – volleys of three now, rather than four. Owen laughed, briefly. There were no guns, not here. Back in the valley they might still be firing, but not here. He slowed his horse even more and the rhythm of hoofbeats changed again, quietening to almost nothing. There had been a point when the cannon had been loud enough to engulf the sound of twenty-four hundred thundering hooves, but not any more.
Her first appointment of the day, direct from stepping off the train, had been inside the Kremlin. In Petersburg, the location of the offices of the Third Section of His Majesty’s Own Chancellery was well known; the ‘building beside the chain bridge’ as it was usually called, the bridge being the one that crossed the Fontanka at the southern end of the Summer Garden. But in Petersburg, the leaders of the Third Section – Count Orlov and General Dubyelt – believed that a secret police force was most effective when it was least secret; that fear was a more effective weapon than surprise.