Young sailor Edmond Dantès considered himself a lucky man—a profitable business and a beautiful bride. But power in France changes as often as the wind. A denunciation by a jealous man— and the innocent Edmond ends up in prison for the long fourteen years...
Having gone through the stone traps of the Château d’If, tempered by hardship, and grown rich on pirate treasure, the hero, under the pseudonym “Count of Monte Cristo,” returns to France to take revenge on the traitors who ruined his life. Not to kill them—he’s not that merciful. The Count uses intrigue, bribery, influence, and provocations to break their lives themselves…