Notes

"He wore a mask of dark, cold iron-- that a nation might not face the fiery
crucible of civil war. Three decades earlier, the young swordsman d'Artagnan and the swashbuckling
Three Musketeers were the most celebrated heroes in 17th-century France. But they have long since
pursued their separate destinies-- and are suddenly astonished to find themselves on opposing sides in
a titanic struggle for the throne of a burgeoning empire. And the pawn in this battle royal is none
other than the identical twin brother on King Louis XIV-- the tormented soul doomed to become fooever
'the man in the iron mask'" -- from dust jacket back.