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May 1812 ReviewNow here's the Regency love story we don't usually hear: England was of course up to the eyeballs in Napoleon at the time, and the war left no one and nothing untouched. That doesn't necessarily leave much time for romance, and that's one of the big problems our hero Myddelton faces in this fast-paced, engrossing story.
Myddelton is a bright sort of aristocrat who works as a cryptographer in Castlereagh's intelligence ops and has an advanced case of bacheloritis. He carouses plenty in his free time, and he seems content to travel along his path of temporary women and obsessive work until one of those "little details" he's been letting slide (like basic housekeeping) comes a-calling in the form of a peremptory final summons to a lawyer's office, where he learns that the PREVIOUS peremptory summonses he's ignored were about a matter he really might have like to have known earlier: namely, that his father's will stipulates that in order to keep his inheritance, he has to marry the daughter of a friend of the father's. Before her eighteenth birthday. Which is like -- right now. And Myddelton doesn't even know the girl.
Whoops! Well, he grits his teeth and trots off to find Janey, planning to pack her off to the country so she doesn't interfere with his work or his life. And of course she's just lovely, and he's immediately crushing on her -- but his fast-living mouth and manners don't exactly get things off on a good footing (Myddelton really could use a brain/mouth barrier, but one can't have everything). They marry, but it isn't consummated; he's not going to push himself on her while they're strangers (and especially when he likes her so well and thinks that she just plain can't stand him -- which he'd rather deserve after some of the remarks he shot off).
May 1812 could have been a splendid "trying to win what you've already got" romance, and in fact it is that, but also more. Myddelton isn't just a workaholic -- he's an important player in a desperate war, and soon after the marriage, the stakes rise dramatically. The Prime Minister is assassinated, throwing England into ferment and chaos. And then Myddelton -- whose work had previously been confined to the office, poring over ciphers -- is sent on a you-can't-turn-this-one-down-buddy mission to France that not only takes him away from Janey but puts him at mortal risk. He's got to complete the mission, save his neck, and get the girl (in bed, dammit!), and none of it is very easy.
The book offers a wealth of characters, subplots, and descriptions of England at the time -- it's a long story, but it flies by and ends satisfyingly (everything is answered, although not everything as one wishes it would be -- sigh!) but too soon!May 1812 Overview1812. Europe has been at war for twenty years. Britain stands alone against the greatest threat to peace the world has ever known, at daily risk of a French invasion and revolution. In London, a handful of men struggle to protect their country and maintain the war effort. Among them, the Earl of Myddelton, code-breaker to the Foreign Office, strives to crack the most difficult French code yet-the Grand Chiffre-before still more men die on the battlefields of Europe. Then, on 11 May 1812, the unthinkable happens-the Prime Minister is assassinated. Amid widespread panic and fear of a French conspiracy, the government falls. From the ballrooms of London, to the backstreets of power, to the death-in-waiting coast of enemy France, Myddelton is drawn inexorably into the deepening crisis-his private life unravelling all the while, as misunderstandings, gossip and spite mar his marriage and threaten to destroy his career.

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