Vain & Valour : Staten House : 9798889404231 : 29 Dec 2023 : "Search the waters!" A familiar shout went up from near the castle. "Find that traitor!" To where does one flee when hunted by the world? What if you, the accused, held the very fate of the Ancien Régime in your grasp? Espionage has a new face in the age of revolution. Meet a legend in the making. Against the sweeping backdrop of the Swiss Alps in 1791, "Vain & Valour" unfolds. In a confederacy poised on the brink of chaos, where secrets are currency, loyalty is a luxury, and every precarious step swings between survival and destruction, one false move could ignite revolution across Switzerland's neutral cantons. A mystery exiled man ensnared in an assassination plot becomes the unwitting agent of destiny. Will his choices save a nation or destroy it? Just as the title suggests, this narrative juxtaposes forces and themes that interplay brilliantly throughout its pages. As much a comedy of manners as it is a spy t