Sir Percy Leads the Band

By Baroness Orczy

Sir Percy Leads the Band' presents an exciting story filled with adventures and rescues. The story is set against the background of the French Revolution when the French nobles were trying to flee for their lives from the citizens of France who wanted to behead every last noble person in the country. In these tumultuous times, moving about the country is a challenge, and the authorities are looking for collaborators, mainly those that work with the Scarlet Pimpernel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 24, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338084620

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of the composer Baron Félix Orczy de Orci. The Orczy family, fearing a peasant revolution, left their country estate for Budapest in 1868 and settled in London in 1880. There Emma attended art school and met her future husband, a clergyman’s son, Montague MacLean Barstow. Following the birth of their only child, she began writing historical novels and plays to supplement his low income. The Scarlet Pimpernel was her first play (and third novel) and proved an enormous success in both mediums. Orczy went on to pen over a dozen sequels, as well as many other novels. She died in Oxfordshire in 1947.