The River Wolf

It is the golden age of the second Napoleonic era. In 1844,paddle and steam replace wind and sail and Napoleon Bonaparte is President of the United Republics of South America. Wars for independence and unification, wars against Spain, Portugal, and the republics themselves, are at an end. Internal conflicts, economic strife, and border disputes were removing themselves from the battlefields and settling in the more contentious and convoluted halls of government. After twenty-three years, the continent and even the world has finally reconciled itself to Napoleon’s rule – Napoleon’s South America.Eligus Bronsan, a sea officer and mercenary who has known nothing but war, must make a place in a world that has no use for him. Under the auspices of the Continental Survey, Le Bureau Examen Continental, Bronsan and his sailors are employed on a mission of exploration that turns into a deadly quest from the jungles of the Amazon, to the British Falklands, through the Straights of Magellan, and finally north to Concepción, Napoleon’s seat of power.