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Summary: Miss Sedgewick and the Spy
Review: Those who think Regency romances are just drawing-room chatter should read this one. It will definitely change your mind.Set in Paris and Brussels on the eve of Waterloo, MISS SEDGEWICK AND THE SPY, is basically a regency version of a James Bond thriller told from the point of view of the "Bond Girl." The herione, Drusilla Sedgewick, is recruited into the "Great Game of Spying" by British Intelligence's top agent in Paris, Col. MacRory Holt. Holt is hot on the trail of the diabolical French spymaster Henry Lazare, who is plotting to kill the Duke of Wellington. In Holt's company, Drusilla soon finds herself in places a proper Regency miss ought not to be: a riverfront tavern, a masked ball, a gypsy caravan, a house of ill-repute. Drusilla soon realizes that she is falling in love, both with the excitment of the "Great Game" and MacRory Holt. But does Holt return her love, or will he sacrifice her to defeat his nemesis, Lazare? The climatic confrontation between Holt and Lazare, with Drusilla's life hanging in the balance, is in the best Bond tradition, with Holt using the high-tech weapons available for the year 1815. It's all great fun, with the non-stop action done up in the best Regency gloss of wit and romance.
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