Twenty Years After

Twenty years have passed since d'Artagnan and his friends first crossed swords in the service of the King. Now the four musketeers are older, changed, and scattered by time and allegiance: d'Artagnan a jaded lieutenant, Athos a reflective country lord, Porthos a wealthy baron hungry for a title, and Aramis deep in the intrigues of the church.

As France is torn apart by the Fronde and England hurtles toward the execution of Charles I, Cardinal Mazarin's schemes draw the four back together, even as they find themselves on opposing sides. Worse, a young man consumed by vengeance for a long-buried crime stalks them across two countries. Alexandre Dumas's sequel to The Three Musketeers is a darker, more melancholy adventure about aging, friendship, and the price of the past, the second novel in the d'Artagnan Romances.