About the book: 1995 / Two decades have passed since the events described in the novel “Lord of the World”... A civil war is raging in America between North and South, Mexico desperately fighting against French intervention. This is the backdrop against which the final novel about the amazing fate of the Count of Monte Cristo unfolds. This story about love and hatred, nobility and meanness, loyalty and betrayal is read with unflagging interest from the first to the last page.