<p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nobody has ever killed anybody else while eating a mouthful of cake.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can food really change the course of world history? The cook with no name certainly thinks so. It's a crazy thought but no crazier than anything else he's been through so why not?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set in Europe in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars our story is full of eccentric characters great generals men of insatiable ambition high society doyennes murderous rogues and swashbucklers.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Along the way we smuggle rum with pirates in the balmy Caribbean explore the underworld of a Paris on the brink of imploding under the weight of its own expectations fall in love and taste exotic recipes including the preparation and cooking of the fearsome vampire fish.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Napoleon and the Cook with no Name</em><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>&nbsp;is a zesty retelling of pre- and post-French-revolutionary history with a culinary flavour where even impossible dreams can come true..</span></p>