kete finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo [sound recording] by E. L. James
Content warning partial synopsis on Count of Monte Cristo & comment on author
Edmund was vengeance, an emperor, and “egotist”. He made an Italian bank, possibly raised a peasant to his own chief bandit and took care of the other bandits! He tricked a French banker into accepting his Italian bank's credit.... They abducted the banker! (after abducting his other rival’s son!)
Amazing story with many more details about his 2 French lives and life on the northern Mediterranean and “the Greeks”. He owned a “Nubian” slave, whom he saved from death. There's a fascinating book about the author’s father, who was in the Haitian revolution?