Magnificent finale to The Falcon Of Siam trilogy.
For a number of years now, Constantine Phaulkon, former cabin boy with the English East India Company, has been at the pinnacle of power in Siam, holding the position of Barcalon or Prime Minister, and enjoying the protection both of the Siamese King and of Europe's most powerful Monarch, Louis XIV of France, who has made him a Count of France.
But when a famous fortune teller tells Phaulkon his days are numbered......and an attractive Englishwoman arrives in Siam with a boy who looks remarkably like him ......everything starts to unravel.
In the third and final volume of this captivating trilogy, this fresco of 17C Siam takes on Shakespearean overtones, as a man of great stature challenges his fate, while the noose keeps tightening around him.