Vautrin Vautrin The Thief (1943)

Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces. Brooks presents a global narrative of the American experience of war during the year, ranging from the tiny blood-drenched island of Tarawa to the vast expanses of North Africa. At no other period was the course of the war in such precarious balance, the author argues, as both Axis and Allies possessed roughly equivalent power, and as both sides still had reasonable expectations that victory could be achieved.

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Charlie is a wily thief taker (Private Investigator) in 1665 London when the plague hits England with a vengeance. He is mistakenly implicated in the violent murder of a young woman by a plague doctor and forced to flee the relative safety of central London for the city's plague-filled outskirts. Charlie is both handsome and inventive. He runs from his present circumstances to find his past in hopes of learning more about his own foundling origins and his freedom.

A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdad's daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules…

"You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy," writes the unnamed narrator of Dear Thief.