The story of three young provincials of no great heritage who together helped to destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves: Camille Desmoulins, bisexual and beautiful, charming, erratic, untrustworthy; Georges Jacques Danton, hugely but erotically ugly, a brilliant pragmatist who knew how to seize power and use it; and Maximilien Robespierre, ""the rabid lamb,"" who would send his dearest friend to the guillotine. Each, none older than thirty-four, would die by the hand of the very revolution he had helped to bring into being.

""Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that catches the jittery, violent flux of the French Revolution.""--Michael Upchurch, Chicago Tribune

""Riveting historical novel""--The New Yorker