The Malice of Fortune - Hardcover

Ennis, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780890974 ISBN 13: 9781780890975

Verlag: Century, 2013

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Críticas:

"A highly intelligent historical thriller" (The Sunday Times)

"Ennis' gripping historical thriller conjures up the unpredictable, dangerous world of Renaissance Italy with great panache." (BBC History Magazine)

"Vivid, well defined, THE MALICE OF FORTUNE captures the glorious and gritty details of Renaissance Italy in a propulsive story." (Mathew Pearl, author of THE DANTE CLUB)

"Fascinating, engrossing and wickedly clever. THE MALICE OF FORTUNE captured my attention up front and kept me turning the pages to the very end." (Douglas Preston)

"THE MALICE OF FORTUNE dishes out a simmering stew, thick with chicanery, bloodshed, dastardly deeds, code-breaking and puzzle-solving." (Katherine Neville, author of THE EIGHT)

Reseña del editor:

When Pope Alexander Borgia dispatches Damiata, a beautiful courtesan, to the remote fortress city of Imola in Northern Italy to learn the truth behind the murder of his beloved son, she knows she cannot fail, for the Pope holds her own son hostage.

Once there, Damiata falls under the spell of the charismatic Duke Valentino Borgia, whose own life is threatened by the condottieri, a powerful cabal of mercenary warlords.

As the murders multiply, Damiata's search for the killer grows more urgent. And so she enlists the help of an obscure Florentine diplomat, Niccolò Machiavelli, and an eccentric military engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Together they begin to decipher the killer's taunting riddles: Leonardo with his groundbreaking "science of observation" and Machiavelli with his new "science of men."

Traveling across a land torn apart by war, Damiata and Machiavelli enter a labyrinth of ancient superstition and erotic obsession to discover at its center a new face of evil and a terrible secret - a secret is still to be found within the lines of Machiavelli's most controversial book, The Prince.

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• Verlag: Century
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780890974
• ISBN 13: 9781780890975
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416