Twenty years after the "Three Musketeers" only D'Artagnan is still a Musketeer. The other three have left the service and are living separate lives.
The story has D'Artagnan and Porthos working for the Queen Regent, Ann of Austria and the niggardly Cardinal Mazarin, while Aramis and Athos are trying to save Charles the First.
Milady's son puts in an appearance trying to revenge his mother and then is much "daring do " plotting and general mayhem with Paris in uproar and Cromwell running England.
It is very slow for the first 200 pages but picks up and I enjoyed it more than "The Three Musketeers"
What I didn't know was D'Artagnan is based on a real person.
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