Carl Baker

14 Days in July Carl Baker First edition

1 July 1789, Paris ? Two weeks before the Revolution
France is undergoing a political upheaval unlike anything it has known before. Louis XVI is using savage mercenary forces and food blockages, to bring the people to heel. The country is a powder keg, and Paris is the fuse. In the midst of what could become bloody chaos, shadowy people? including the sinister and brutal chief of the Paris police?discover that a young Parisian laundress, Michèle Duvallier, whose fiancé is imprisoned for his political activities, knows a deadly, ancient secret that could shake France?s monarchy to its core. Michèle finds herself the object of a murderous manhunt. Her imprisoned fiancé?s citizen?s group, now led by his brother, is being chased from one hiding place to another. It is only during the fall of the Bastille that she learns why so many powerful people are hunting for her, but as well the shocking identity of who has been betraying them ?.
September 1654, Burgundy ? 135 years before the Revolution
A good-natured young man, an orphan, is mysteriously imprisoned with grotesque instructions to conceal his identity in such as way as to ensure he is to be forgotten for all time ?.
The man in the iron mask was not a pure invention of Alexandre Dumas. The rumor of the existence of twin boys being switched, one of whom was to become Louis XIV, had been speculated on for well over a hundred years by many high sources? including Voltaire, who secretly told friends he had seen the man unmasked, and saw he was the king?s twin. But what Dumas, and no one else, wrote about, was the even more dangerous rumor that there was not only a switch, but as well ... another lineage ?.