Revenge

This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, newly in love with bright, beautiful Portia, his father an influential MP, Ned leads a charmed life. But privilege makes him an easy target for envy, and in the course of one day Ned's destiny is forever altered. A promise made to a dying teacher combined with a prank devised by a jealous classmate mutates bewilderingly into a case of mistaken arrest and incarceration. Ned finds himself a political prisoner in a nightmarish exile that lasts years, until a fellow inmate reawakens Ned's intellect and resurrects his will to live. The chilling consequences of Ned's recovery are felt worldwide.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 05/13/2003
ISBN: 9780812968194
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Review Citations: New York Times 05/18/2003 pg. 40
Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 21