The second in the Three Men in A War series plunges into the catastrophic unravelling of Napoleon’s empire, as Europe rises and the dream of dominion begins to fracture.

Marshal Ney, the Emperor’s legendary ‘Bravest of the Brave’, stands at the pinnacle of his renown. Idolised by his soldiers and trusted by Napoleon, he carries a secret that could tarnish the myth of imperial infallibility. As triumph turns to catastrophe in the snows of Russia, Ney must fight for survival, for honour, and for the fragile glory he has built with blood.

Sir Robert Wilson, English general, diplomat and implacable enemy of Bonaparte, moves through courts and camps with cold purpose. His hatred has ripened into obsession. Determined to carve his name into history, he is resolved to be the man who brings the Emperor down—by intrigue, by alliance, or by assassination.

Michael Bruce, hedonistic Etonian and reluctant soldier no longer, continues his pursuit of pleasure amid the chaos of war. Yet even he cannot ignore the collapse unfolding around him, as battlefields, boudoirs and bedchambers become stages for ambition, betrayal and desire.

From the advance on Moscow and the infamous retreat through a Russian winter to the reckoning at Waterloo, Fleeting Glory is an epic tale of courage, obsession and survival—where love, honour and life itself hang in the balance, but glory proves fleeting indeed.