The Black Coats: the Companions of the Treasure

For over a century, the Black Coats have ransacked Europe, accumulating wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. The location of their treasure is known only by their godfather, Colonel Bozzo-Corona, but now some members of the High Council of the criminal brotherhood have banded together to form the Companions of the Treasure, a cabal-within-the-cabal which plots to wrest that secret from their immortal master. Meanwhile, the Colonel, who once killed his own son, is now pitted against his grandson in a generational conflict of evil... Written in 1870-72, The Companions of the Treasure is a key work in Paul Féval?s saga of the Black Coats and a uniquely interesting specimen in the history of the crime novel, anticipating Arthur Conan Doyle?s Professor Moriarty, Mario Puzo?s Godfather and Robert Ludlum?s Matarese Circle.