SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, 1636
It’s spring in Burgundy. The flowers are out and so are the cardinals—of Pope Urban’s renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican’s would-be usurper Borja. Most of the Church’s senior leaders have converged upon the city of Besancon, where the Pope plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at war.
Fortunately, Urban has up-time help. He can rely upon Cardinal-Protector Larry Mazzare’s theological savvy, Sharon Nichols’ medical skills, and her husband Ruy Sanchez’s keen-eyed experience as a body-guard-in-chief. And even though Urban has a new Papal Guard in the form of Owen Roe O’Neill’s Wild Geese, Mike Stearns has loaned the Pope a small contingent of the Hibernian Battalion—just in case.
Which is prudent, since Urban and his peace initiative are not merely at risk from Borja’s assassins. There is another, more deadly, team of professional killers in town, directed by the man who almost killed the Pope before: lethal Spanish mastermind Pedro Dolor.
Dolor hasn’t come to confess murder—he’s come to commit it.
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what happenIt is Feb 6 and not being sold. not even ebook?
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a book on religionbadly written as a novel masquerading as an adventure. poor plot should have been a short story.
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Very good. Starts a bit slowly, but the multi layered plot is quite well done. Pedro Dolor seems a rather complex and fascinating character. Just a small point, the river is called Doubs and not Doub. ( the b and s are silent, so it's pronounced like "do")
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Well doneNicely woven tale. Enjoyed it very much and well worth the E-ARC price.
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If you like spy thrillers and the 1632 stories then this is probably for you. It's a bit convoluted for my tastes but it's well written and it certainly has a large impact on the universe as a whole.
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IT CAME AND WORTH THE WAIT!!!! The complex charactors made me want to find more about them, the double cross and lies read like a good spy novel.
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