![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "It is hard to do better than this vivid, terrifying portrait of a survivor of the Protestant Reformation. What begins as a personal struggle to reveal each other's identity becomes a mission that can only end in death.įrom the Back Cover " is a historical novel of the grand and sweeping sort, one that aims to capture not a life or a moment, but an era of pivotal importance."-Washington Post Book World About the Book In this brilliantly conceived literary thriller set in the chaos of the Reformation-an age devastated by wars of religion-a young theology student adopts the cause of heretics and the disinherited and finds himself pursued by a relentless papal informer and heretic hunter.īook Synopsis In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy known mysteriously as "Q." In this brilliantly conceived literary thriller set in the chaos of the Reformation-an age devastated by wars of religion-a young theology student adopts the cause of heretics and the disinherited and finds himself pursued by a relentless papal informer and heretic hunter. ![]()
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