Richard Hughes - freedman, swordsman, and English to boot - came to Venice seeking a simple life. After he and his friend Phillip de Chambray - a genius noblewoman, disguising herself - were embroiled in an attempt to sabotage the opera during Carnevale, and destabilise Venice, they were immediately plunged into yet another intrigue. The French Ambassador to Venice has been murdered - poisoned - and the suspect may lurk within the Embassy itself. Charged with the investigation, Richard follows threads that immediately become tangled as the layers of conspiracy become apparent. Notes are left around the city alleging traitors among Venice's elite, and sabotage threatens the security of the city itself. Richard and Phillip are tested to their limits and drawn through the lowest strata and the highest echelons of Venetian society to solve the case. Rich with authentic detail, this is the story of a complex world not so different from our own, and Christian Cameron, the modern master of historical fiction, brings real history to life in a way no other author can.
Author
Aka Miles Cameron. Also publishes as Gordon Kent with his father Kenneth M. Cameron. Christian Cameron was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1962. He grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts, Iowa City, Iowa,Christian Cameron and Rochester, New York, where he attended McQuaid Jesuit High School and later graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in history. After the longest undergraduate degree on record (1980-87), he joined the United States Navy, where he served as an intelligence officer and as a backseater in S-3 Vikings in the First Gulf War, in Somalia, and elsewhere. After a dozen years of service, he became a full time writer in 2000. He lives in Toronto (that’s Ontario, in Canada) with his wife Sarah and their daughter Beatrice, currently age four. And a half.
