[close] France, October 13, 1793: On the eve of Marie Antoinette's trial--the very height of the French Revolution--Paris is a city filled with fear and mistrust, where no one is safe, not even the formidable police commissioner, Joseph Fouché. Fouché's love for his paramour Nanette--once a lady-in-waiting to the queen--places the heartless revolutionary's loyalty under suspicion. When the former queen disappears from her cell, Fouché--entrusted with her safekeeping--must substitute the Antoinette look-alike Nanette for her as he scours the city, ever aware that if he fails to find the queen, Nanette will go to the guillotine in her place. A superior novel of intrigue and passion, Alan Jolis's Love and Terror nimbly blends both fact and fiction, vividly bringing to life one of the most important periods in France's history. [close]