The Officer's Prey

In the first of the Napoleonic Murders series, described as a 'splendid war epic' by Sunday Telegraph, Napoleon begins his invasion of Russia.June 1812. Napoleon leads the largest army Europe has ever seen in his invasion of Russia. But amongst the troops of the Grande Armée is a savage murderer whose bloodlust is not satisfied in battle. When an innocent Polish woman is brutally stabbed, Captain Quentin Margont of the 84th regiment is put in charge of a secret investigation to unmask the perpetrator. Armed with the sole fact that the killer is an officer, Margont knows that he faces a near-impossible task and the greatest challenge of his military career.



Armand Cabasson was born in 1970. He is a psychiatrist working in the North of France. The Officer's Prey is the first in the Quentin Margont series of thrillers set in the Napoleonic Wars, published in France in 2002 as Les Proies de l'officier, which received the Gendarmerie Nationale Thriller Prize. The second in the series, Chasse au loup, was awarded the Fiction Prize by the Napoleonic Foundation. Armand is a member of the Souvenir Napoléonien and has used his extensive research to create a vivid portrait of the Napoleonic campaigns.