Twenty Years After Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the "idea" of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–1651), with Cardinal Mazarin as First Minister. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of "The Three Musketeers", has for twenty years remained a lieutenant, and seems unlikely to progress despite his ambition and the debt
Vertical (novel) Oh made many script changes which Pickett disliked, he eliminated her character from "Vertical" so that he would not have to work with Oh if a sequel is made. Vertical (novel) Vertical is a 2010 novel by Rex Pickett and the second novel in the "Sideways Trilogy". It is a sequel to the novel "Sideways", which was made into a successful 2004 film of the same name. The novel takes place seven years after the events depicted in "Sideways". It contains the same characters as in the earlier novel: Miles, a writer, his friend Jack, a sometime actor, and Miles'