Synopses & Reviews
June 1812. Napoleon Bonaparte begins his invasion of Russia leading the largest army Europe has ever seen. But amongst the troops of the Grande Armée is a savage murderer whose bloodlust is not satisfied in battle.
When a Polish woman is brutally stabbed, Captain Quentin Margont of the eighty-forth regiment is put in charge of an investigation to unmask the perpetrator. Armed with the fact that the killer is an officer, Margont knows that he faces an impossible task and the greatest challenge of his military career.
Armand Cabasson is an author and psychiatrist who lives in the north of France.
Synopsis
June 1812—a serial killer is on the loose in the ranks of Napoleon Bonapartes army as he begins his invasion.
About the Author
Cabasson is a psychiatrist and novelist working in the north of France. The Officers Prey is the first in the Quentin Margont series of thrillers set in the Napoleonic Wars. It was published in France in 2002 as Les proies de lofficier and received the 2003 Gendarmerie Nationale Thriller Prize.