Penultimate volume of the beloved }Temeraire{ series, a reimagination of the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons. A shipwrecked English aviator finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues in Japan, and Napoleon has turned on his former ally, Alexander of Russia Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a twenty-first-century classic.