Twenty years after

Twenty years after their first adventures, Dumas reunites d’Artagnan and the three musketeers, now older and scattered by loyalty, on opposite sides of civil war in France and revolution in England. Blending real history with headlong action, the novel follows the aging swordsmen as friendship is tested against politics and the intrigues of Cardinal Mazarin. It is the rousing middle chapter of the d’Artagnan saga, richer and more melancholy than its predecessor.