The Rape of Venice.

WHEATLEY, Dennis.

$35.00

Item Number: 128105

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1959.

First edition of the sixth book in the best-selling author’s Roger Brook espionage series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sax.

In The Rape of Venice, we find Roger Brook in the summer of 1796, sailing for Calcutta with his lovely Clarissa. In Calcutta, Clarissa is abducted by Rinaldo Malderini, a Venetian senator and a disciple of the Devil, an enemy as vicious and unscrupulous as any that Roger Brook had faced. Through shipwreck, capture by slavers, a desperate night attack on a walled city, Roger Brook seeks his revenge: and achieves it on entering Venice with Napoleon.