Alexandre Dumas is a world-famous writer, the author of numerous fascinating historical novels. Rapidly developing events, unexpected plot twists, court intrigues, an unprincipled struggle for power, love and hate—the reader will find all this in the novel 'Forty-five,' which completes the trilogy dedicated to the Huguenot wars of the late 16th century and continues the narrative begun with the novels 'Queen Margot' and 'The Countess de Monsoreau.'
King Henry III of France is in mortal danger. The power-hungry Guises hire an entire army of assassins, and only forty-five bodyguards loyal to the king are still able to save the throne from a bloody crime...








