The Enterprise of Death (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316087346)

As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent.

She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.

Author: Jesse Bullington
ISBN-10: 0316087343
ISBN-13: 9780316087346
Publisher: Orbit
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2011
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2011