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It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness ... Thus begins a sweeping historical adventure about two dueling swordsmen and the plot to kill a king in the grand tradition of Dorothy Dunnett and Alexander Dumas. The year is 1610. Continental Europe is briefly at peace after years of war, but Henri IV of France is planning to invade the German principalities. In England, only five years earlier, conspirators nearly succeeded in blowing up King James I and his Parliament. The seeds of the English Civil War and the Thirty Years War are visibly being sown, and the possibility for both enlightenment and disaster abounds. But Valentin Rochefort, duelist and spy for France's powerful financial minister, could not care less. Until he is drawn into the glittering palaces, bawdy back streets, and stunning theatrics of Renaissance France and Shakespearean London in a deadly plot both to kill King James I and to save him. For this swordsman without a conscience is about to find himself caught between loyalty, love, and blackmail, between kings, queens, politicians, and Rosicrucians -- and the woman he has, unknowingly, crossed land and sea to meet.… (más)
La Europa continental disfruta de una breve paz después de años de guerra, pero Enrique IV de Francia planea invadir los principados alemanes. En Inglaterra, solo cinco años antes, los conspiradores han estado a punto de conseguir volar por los aires al rey Jaime I y su Parlamento. Las semillas de la guerra civil inglesa y la guerra de los Treinta Años se están plantando a la vista de todos. Pero a Valentin Rochefort, duelista y espía al servicio del poderoso ministro de finanzas francés, le importa poco..., hasta que se ve arrastrado a los palacios resplandecientes, los callejones obscenos y los teatralismos asombrosos de la Francia renacentista y el Londres shakespeariano en una conjura mortal para matar al rey Jaime I. Este espadachín sin conciencia se verá atrapado entre la lealtad, el amor y el chantaje, entre reyes, reinas, políticos y rosacruces... y la mujer por la que, sin saberlo, ha cruzado tierras y mares.
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'[...]make The sons of sword, and hazard fall before The golden calf, and on their knees, whole nights, Commit idolatry with wine, and trumpets.' - II.i.18 - 28, The Alchemist, Ben Jonson (1610)
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Translator's Foreword. It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness.
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It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness ... Thus begins a sweeping historical adventure about two dueling swordsmen and the plot to kill a king in the grand tradition of Dorothy Dunnett and Alexander Dumas. The year is 1610. Continental Europe is briefly at peace after years of war, but Henri IV of France is planning to invade the German principalities. In England, only five years earlier, conspirators nearly succeeded in blowing up King James I and his Parliament. The seeds of the English Civil War and the Thirty Years War are visibly being sown, and the possibility for both enlightenment and disaster abounds. But Valentin Rochefort, duelist and spy for France's powerful financial minister, could not care less. Until he is drawn into the glittering palaces, bawdy back streets, and stunning theatrics of Renaissance France and Shakespearean London in a deadly plot both to kill King James I and to save him. For this swordsman without a conscience is about to find himself caught between loyalty, love, and blackmail, between kings, queens, politicians, and Rosicrucians -- and the woman he has, unknowingly, crossed land and sea to meet.
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entre reyes, reinas, políticos y rosacruces... y la mujer por la que, sin saberlo, ha cruzado tierras y mares.