Roger Brook
Roger Brook is a fictional secret agent and Napoleonic Wars Era gallant, later identified as the Chevalier de Breuc, in a series of twelve novels by Dennis Wheatley. The series, which covers events from a dozen years before the French Revolution to the fall of Napoleon, is historically accurate, written from the perspective of an aide-de-camp to Napoleon himself.
The twelve books, with the dates when first published, and the period covered by the plot of each book, are as follows:
- The Launching of Roger Brook (3 July 1947) covers 28 July 1783 - November 1787
- The Shadow of Tyburn Tree (6 May 1948) November 1787 - April 1789
- The Rising Storm (13 October 1949) April 1789 - July 1790
- The Man Who Killed the King (8 November 1951) June 1792 - August 1794
- The Dark Secret of Josephine (16 March 1955) August 1794 - April 1796
- The Rape of Venice (19 October 1959) June 1796 - December 1797
- The Sultan's Daughter (19 August 1963) February 1798 - 31 December 1799
- The Wanton Princess (22 August 1966) 1 January 1800 - 30 November 1805
- Evil in a Mask (18 August 1969) February 1807 - September 1809
- The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware (16 August 1971) September 1809 - 1 January 1813
- The Irish Witch (20 August 1973) 1812 - 1814
- Desperate Measures (2 September 1974) 1814 - 1815