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The Gift Of The Emperor

The Gift Of The Emperor

Hornung, E. W.

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ISBN10: 1162695684
ISBN13: 9781162695686
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
The Gift of the Emperor is a novel written by E.W. Hornung. The story revolves around two main characters, Felix and his friend, Reggie. Felix is a British soldier who is captured by the Germans during World War I and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany. Reggie, who is also a soldier, manages to escape and makes his way back to England.While in the camp, Felix is given a gift by the German Emperor, Wilhelm II. The gift is a valuable diamond, which Felix hides in his belongings. After the war ends, Felix returns to England and reunites with Reggie. However, he is haunted by the memory of the diamond and decides to sell it to make a new life for himself.Felix's attempt to sell the diamond leads him into a web of deceit and danger, as he becomes embroiled in a plot to steal the diamond back from him. Along the way, he meets a beautiful woman named Z�����lie, who becomes his ally in the fight to keep the diamond.The Gift of the Emperor is a thrilling adventure story that explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the consequences of greed. It is a gripping tale of one man's struggle to do the right thing in a world full of danger and temptation.Not a hitch occurred. Everything had been foreseen; everything happened as I had been assured everything must. Nobody was about below, only the ship's boys on deck, and nobody on the bridge. It was twenty-five minutes past one when Raffles, without a stitch of clothing on his body, but with a glass phial, corked with cotton-wool, between his teeth, and a tiny screw-driver behind his ear, squirmed feet first through the ventilator over his berth; and it was nineteen minutes to two when he returned, head first, with the phial still between his teeth, and the cotton-wool rammed home to still the rattling of that which lay like a great grey bean within.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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