1610 by Gentle, Mary ISBN 0575072512
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Spies and assassins, mathematical magicians, swordsmen and kings and one indomitable, incorrigible woman share the stage in an epic alternate history.
Valhntin Rochefort, professional duellist and down-at-heels aristocrat, arranges the assassination of Henri IV, King of France. Fleeing from the consequences, he makes for England, on the way picking up two companions - a young boy, Dariole, also a duellist, with whom Rochefort is sexually obsessed; and a ship-wrecked 'demon'. Dariole is discovered first to be a girl, and then to be Rochefort's sister; the 'demon' is Tanaka Saburo, a Japanese samurai on ambassadorial mission to England from the Shogun; and Rochefort is found by a pack of Hermetic mages and conspirators, who want him to arrange the same thing for King James I/VI of England as he did for Henri of France. Rochefort, blackmailed into arranging the death of King James at the performance of a Hermetic magic play, to bring about a future of peace, science, and progress, attempts simultaneously to save his own skin, save the king's life, restrain Saburo's sense of duty and haphazardly homicidal way with European 'peasa nts', and resolve his sado-masochistic obsession with the unattainable Dariole - who, herself, is busy making forays into Shakespeare's theatre as England's first (and worst) female actor . . . 1610 really isn't Rochefort's year - And as the play's performance and the assassination approach, Rochefort's dreams of the future that may spring from this crucial year grow increasingly stranger and more contradictory. He realises he must act - but, how? What is the right choice? And how much of the future will depend on what he does?
[edit] Book Details
[edit] Title
1610
[edit] Author
Gentle, Mary
[edit] ISBN
0575072512
[edit] Published
20/11/2003
[edit] Publisher
Victor Gollancz Ltd
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
12.99 (GBP)
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11.69 (GBP)
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