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Admiral Slovo was a man of his time, but of more than one dimension..In his sixteenth century, a pirate might be followed by the corpse of his victim, walking across the ocean, until putrescence claimed it. Or an interview with the Pope might be mirrored, exactly, by one with the Devil. Reality shifts could cause a King to see his capital city shimmer into another Realm entirely.
Through such scenes of macabre hallucination, mayhem and murder, Slovo is a man alone, set apart by his stoic beliefs from the rigours of human fears and passions. As such, he was a valuable find for the Vehme, a clandestine, subversive society that ensnared its members from an early age, securing loyalties by the expedient methods of blackmail, bribery and barbarism.
But Slovo is more than a Vehmist puppet, and whether as a brigand on the high seas, or emissary to the Borgias, or as the Pope’s Machiavellian Mr Fix-it, he plots a course that suits his own ends as much as those of his paymasters. He knows that, in the words of his mentor Marcus Aurelius, "in a brief while you will be ashes of bare bones; a name, or perhaps not even a name". And there are few things that cannot be solved by a stiletto in the eye.
- Начало книги
- The Year 1525 ‘How did I get to here from there and was it really worth all the trouble? The consolations of flesh and philosophy.’
- The Year 1486 ‘SWIMMING LESSONS: After a sad and lonely childhood, cast as an orphan into the wicked world, I discover my vocation and philosophy of life. Piracy suits me very well.’
- The Year 1487 ‘I find service with a Master of my chosen trade and meet new and frightening people with my best interests at heart.’
- The Year 1488 ‘By possession of a beautiful bottom (but not my own) I secure a new position in life and acquire respectability and a wife!’
- The Year 1492 ‘INSTALMENTS: In which I become impatient and incite some nostalgics to ambitions of destroying the human race. Little by little, I learn something.’
- The Year 1493 ‘I die in Germany. Afterwards, I am enrolled in a conspiracy.’
- The Year 1497 ‘A STAB IN THE DARK: I apply liberality to the dispensing of Justice and assist a soul in torment.’
- The Year 1498 ‘I offer hospitality, but for which Notre Dame would become a Mosque.’
- The Year 1499 GREAT EXPECTATIONS: I save a dynasty, dabble in racial politics and have my portrait painted. ’
- The Year 1500 ‘In which some stony-hearts confide that I am important.’
- The Year 1506 ‘BE ASSURED, HE IS NOT THERE: I commission a masterpiece of Western art and learn the key mystery of Mother Church. A friend is glad to hear he has not wasted his life.’
- The Year 1508 PUTTING OFF THE EVIL DAY: In which I render a god homeless, mingle with Royalty, learning their dark and disgraceful secrets, and do the world a great favour for which it is not particularly grateful. ’
- The Year 1509 ‘In bed with the Borgias. Cannons and cuckoldry in Northern Italy. An ordeal not entirely in accord with my tastes.’
- The Year 1510 ‘THE FLOWERING OF THE REFORMATION & FATHER DROZ ’S LITTLE OUTING: A symposium on faith, carnal lust and sausage. I guiltily sow weeds in the fields of Mother Church.’
- The Year 1520 ‘A LIGHT TO (AND FROM) THE GENTILES: In which I decide the fate of the Universe and become Lord of the Isle of Capri.’
- The Year? ‘ENVOI: The Devil’s gift-box contains only unsweet sorrow. A comfortable life, another wife and additions to the tribe of Slovo. A bath seems increasingly attractive however.’
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