The Black Tower: A NovelFrom the acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye, comes another literary thriller with a real life background. This time, Louis Bayard has constructed a pitch perfect novel featuring Eugne Franois Vidocq, a criminal who transformed himself into the worlds first and greatest detective. Vidocq! Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian