Man in the Iron Mask Huguenot Roux de Marcilly. After his master's execution in 1669 the valet was taken to France, possibly by capture or subterfuge, and imprisoned because he might have known too much about his master's affairs. In "The Man of the Mask" (1908), Arthur Barnes presents James de la Cloche, the alleged illegitimate son of the reluctant Protestant Charles II of England, who would have been his father's secret intermediary with the Catholic court of France. Louis XIV could have imprisoned him because he knew too much about French affairs with England. One of Charles's confirmed illegitimate sons, the Duke of Monmouth,
The Man in the High Castle located in deep space, sees to it that nothing, absolutely nothing, can prevent Abendsen from finishing his novel.The novel eventually evolved into a new story unrelated to "The Man in the High Castle." Dick ultimately abandoned the "Albemuth" book, unpublished during his lifetime, though portions were salvaged and used for 1981's "VALIS". The full book was published in 1985, three years after Dick's death. The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle (1962) is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Set in 1962, fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War