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 | For over a century, the Black Coats have ransacked Europe,
accumulating wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. The location of their
treasure is known only by their godfather, Colonel Bozzo-Corona, but now
some members of the High Council of the criminal brotherhood have banded
together to form the Companions of the Treasure, a cabal-within-the-cabal
which plots to wrest that secret from their immortal master. Meanwhile,
the Colonel, who once killed his own son, is now pitted against his grandson
in a generational conflict of evil...
Written in 1870-72, The Companions of the Treasure is a key work in
Paul Féval's saga of the Black Coats and a uniquely interesting
specimen in the history of the crime novel, anticipating Arthur Conan
Doyle's Professor Moriarty, Mario Puzo's Godfather and Robert Ludlum's
Matarese Circle.
Cover by J.-M. Ponzio
Published by Black Coat Press in 2008
ISBN: 978-1-934543-26-9
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