EUROCRIME REVIEW: THE SUN KING RISES

My review of The Sun King Rises  by Yves Jego and Denis Lepee has been posted on Euro Crime here. 

This book is a story of power politics in seventeenth century France that was rather disappointing. Which I suppose is no surprise as power politicians promise the earth and fail to deliver both in seventeenth century France and most twenty first century democracies. 

The novel is set in 1661 and I know Cardinal Richelieu died in 1642, but I did not have a book about Cardinal Mazarin his successor. 

Richelieu was the man who made France the great power in Europe, and not Nicholas Sarkozy as has been suggested by the gorgeous latest model Madame Sarkozy.