(insert name here) is a naive, entirely benign young soldier who has just been made captain, and is newly engaged to the wizard Harry Dresden. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, he is framed as a spy/traitor/murderer/(insert other suitably nasty crime here) by four men, each with his own sinister aims, and sent to life imprisonment in whichever suitably fortress-like island prison you choose. During his years in prison, (insert name here) meets Shiro Yoshimo, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Shiro educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Demonreach. (insert name here) manages to escape, and finds the treasure. He returns to Chicago as the mysterious, brooding, immensely wealthy and highly cultivated Gentleman John Marcone. He discovers that the men who sent him to his fate have all become very rich and powerful, and sets about using their own evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an elaborate and cruel revenge on all of them. Would prefer it to end happily for both Harry and John, in a departure from the original novel, and for Morgan, the Denarians, and Mab to appear in some form.
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Dresden/Marcone - The Count of Monte Cristo. Yes, I am a nerd.
Date: 2011-02-23 08:04 pm (UTC)During his years in prison, (insert name here) meets Shiro Yoshimo, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Shiro educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Demonreach. (insert name here) manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
He returns to Chicago as the mysterious, brooding, immensely wealthy and highly cultivated Gentleman John Marcone. He discovers that the men who sent him to his fate have all become very rich and powerful, and sets about using their own evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an elaborate and cruel revenge on all of them.
Would prefer it to end happily for both Harry and John, in a departure from the original novel, and for Morgan, the Denarians, and Mab to appear in some form.