Between Love And Honor – Alexandra Lapierre

He stifled his own impulses and, in the end, he always tried to break himself. “As for his arm, though he had scars all over both of his arms, this wound that the Czar knew about had attracted our curiosity. As usual, he was very discreet about it, and we had to worm it out of him. He told us, with great reserve and dif- ficulty, that a Cossack of the Don had wounded him with a lance when his family was escaping from Akulgo.

His family had managed to get away when he, Jamal Eddin, had fallen from his horse. That was when he had been captured and ~ made a prisoner. “I think he doctored the truth a little and mixed up sev- eral incidents, because he couldn’t admit that his own peo- ple had given him up. He still couldn’t bear the idea. “But I did not understand that until later, in our room, when Youssouf, humiliated by the Emperor’s remarks and probably envious, started shouting that, if Jamal Eddin was in Russia, it wasn’t because he had been captured when he was running away, but because he had been betrayed and given away by his father.

“The fight that followed cost them both dearly. “As luck would have it, after the Czar left, our company had been assigned a new captain—Captain Argamakoy, also known as The Beast—who loved the sight of blood. The usual punishment for insubordination was twenty-five lashes ‘ with the cane. But twenty-five lashes from Argamakov were like the knout used in public beatings of true delinquents.

In this case, the punishment was forty lashes for each of the two Muslims. “The problem with Argamakov’s thrashings wasn’t so much the pain as the splinters they left all over you.

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—Philippe Vallet, France Info “The ‘shattered destiny of this Chechnyan prince is worth all the screenplays in Hollywood! Everything here is true, from the daggers, the horses, the diamonds…to the blood, the tears…With a light hand, Alexandra Lapierre achieves the union of history and epic…she offers us this rebel, his love and his honor, heartrending certainly, but glorious in the end.”

—Jean-Francois Kervean, Gala °° ALSO BY ALEXANDRA LAPIERRE °* AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH: Artemisia Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950 (in collaboration with Christel Mouchard) AVAILABLE IN FRENCH: La Lionne du Boulevard Un homme fatal L’absent Artemisia Fanny Stevenson Le salon des petites vertus Le voleur déternité Elles ont conquis le monde. Les grandes aventuriéres, 1850-1950 (in collaboration with Christel Mouchard) Tout Vhonneur des Hommes Liexcessive ee Bove arte Poonor ia a satan ALEXANDRA LAPIERRE * TRANSLATED BY JANE LIZOP e amazon crossing @ Text copyright © 2008 by Alexandra Lapierre English translation copyright © 2012 by Jane Lizop Alexandra Lapierre photograph © 2012 Getty Images Alexandra Lapierre photograph by Jean Luc Nyssen © 2010 Gamma Agency All rights reserved.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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