The Dog Countess is set in the time of Napoleon's campaigns in Central Europe. Bogdan Novak used historical documents, including a painting commissioned by Napoleon, to imaginatively reconstruct the ten-year-long love affair between the Emperor and a woman met at Vienna, Eva Kraus, who accompanied him in his campaigns dressed-up as a lieutenant of his army, from Moscow to Waterloo, and finally visited him at St. Helen, ending his suffering with a dose of arsenic. A poignant love story, a reinterpretation of one of the key figures in European history and a gripping reconstruction of a turbulent era of European history, told by a master storyteller.