Like The Dante Club and The Alienist, this clever, sophisticated, exceptionally enjoyable novel is written with the unstoppable narrative propulsion and stylistic flair of the very best historical thrillers. Bruno must attempt to outwit a killer who appears obsessed with the boundary between truth and heresy. As Bruno begins to discover a pattern in these killings, he realizes that no one at Oxford is who he seems to be.

His mission is dramatically thrown off course by a series of grisly murders and a spirited and beautiful young woman. Yet Bruno’s conscience remains troubled throughout by the double life he has to lead. Giordano Bruno, a radical thinker fleeing the Inquisition, is sent undercover to. Walsingham tells him whenever you feel the wrench between conscience and duty, your care should always be for the greater good. In Elizabeths England, true faith can mean bloody murder. Officially Bruno is to take part in a debate on the Copernican theory of the universe unofficially, he is to find out whatever he can about a Catholic plot to overthrow the queen. 23, 2010 Densely plotted and paced historical thriller set in Elizabethan Oxford combines spying and a serial killer with the quest for a world-orderthreatening lost book. When Giordano Bruno is recruited as a spy by Sir Francis Walsingham, he hesitates. Parris's gripping novel, Bruno's pursuit of this rare knowledge brings him to London, where he is unexpectedly recruited by Queen Elizabeth I and is sent undercover to Oxford University on the pretext of a royal visitation. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult philosophies and magic. Synopsis: Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite.

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