Death and the Devil
Editorial QUERCUS PUBLISHING
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher QUERCUS PUBLISHING
- ISBN13 9781849162456
- ISBN10 184916245X
- Type Book
- Collection GARDNERS #
- Published 2010
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureDeath and the Devil
Editorial QUERCUS PUBLISHING
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book Details
Cologne, 1260. The great cathedral, the most ambitious building in all Christendom, is rising above the city. In its shadow seethes a society in ferment: traumatised Crusaders returning from the Holy Land, religious tensions posed to explode into violence, a burgeoning merchant class that despises the old aristocracy and is determined to seize power. Against this backdrop Jacob the Fox, a flame-haired petty thief, witnesses a murder - the cathedral's architect, pushed to his death from the scaffold by a black-clad assassin. Soon Jacob is on the run, convinced the Angel of Death is on his trail, as the killer pursues him through medieval Cologne's seedy underworld. To survive he must uncover a vengeful conspiracy that threatens to tear the city apart and stain the sacred project with blood.