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The Mad King
American Barney Custer travels to the small European kingdom of Lutha, where his resemblance to the young king places him in the middle of a dynastic and constitutional crisis. Court factions, imprisonment and romance with Princess Emma continue into a second part shaped by the outbreak of the First World War.
Although Lutha is imaginary, its position between Austria and Serbia gives the novel the political tension of the pre-war Balkans. The second half moves into the opening of the First World War, turning Barney's resemblance to the king from a comic accident into a dangerous problem of sovereignty, loyalty and national survival.
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