THE RESURRECTION OF ROCAMBOLE (La Résurrection de Rocambole English Edition): THE ROCAMBOLE SAGA · BOOK FIVE · PART I - Softcover

Ponson Du Terrail, Pierre Alexis

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798189356223

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Toulon, 1865. In the convict yard he is only a number: 117. Ten years ago he was the most brilliant criminal in France. Tonight he goes over the wall — not to sin again, but to atone.

The man who was branded and sent to the galleys has spent a decade in chains, and the years have burned something new into him. Rocambole escapes the bagne of Toulon a changed man: no longer the villain, but a penitent with a genius that has nowhere left to go but toward the good. Around him he gathers a strange new family — the giant Milon, the fiercely devoted Polish baroness Vanda, a handful of reformed criminals who call him only Master. Under the identity of a Russian noble, Major Avatar, he sets himself a first mission of mercy: to save two orphaned sisters, Antoinette and Madeleine, from the men who murdered their way to their fortune. The talents that once served evil now serve the innocent — but they are the same talents, and Rocambole has never learned to win any way but his own.

For readers who love a master of disguise on the side of the angels — the gentleman-thief spirit of Arsène Lupin, the long game of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Newly translated by Sofia E.V. Hamett from Ponson du Terrail's original serials, this edition is written in the natural English of a modern thriller: faithful to the plot, the characters and the events, and alive on the page for today's reader. Complete and unabridged.

Part I of The Resurrection of Rocambole — the story continues in Part II. New to the saga? It begins in Book One, The Mysterious Inheritance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798189356223
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253