About this audiobook
Twenty years after their earlier adventures, d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis no longer follow a single path. Time has changed their circumstances, ambitions and political loyalties. Events in France and England draw them into new dangers, testing whether a friendship formed in youth can survive the different commitments of adult life.
Alexandre Dumas places the companions within a world of court intrigue and civil conflict. Personal loyalty does not always agree with service to a political cause, and the friends may find themselves on opposing sides of a larger struggle. Their knowledge of one another can be a source of strength, but it also makes disagreement more painful.
The novel combines adventure with an interest in how relationships endure change. Its suspense grows from familiar characters meeting situations that demand new choices, and from the possibility that loyalty may require more thought than simply repeating the promises that once seemed easy to make.
