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The Cardinal's Man

The Cardinal's Man M. G. Sinclair
Pub date 11th July 2017
Publisher (UK) Black & White

 

 

 

 

A spellbinding story set in Cardinal Richelieu’s France

It’s over a century before the Revolution and France is under siege. The Thirty Years’ War has spread across Europe, alliances are stretched to breaking point and enemies advance on every side. And while Louis XIII sits on the throne, the real power lies with the notorious Cardinal Richelieu.

Now, with Richelieu’s health failing and France in grave danger, salvation may yet be found in the most unlikely form. Sebastian Morra, born into poverty and with terrible deformities, is a dwarf on a mission. Through a mixture of brains and luck, he has travelled far from his village to become a jester at the royal court. And with a talent for making enemies, he is soon drawn into the twilight world of Cardinal Richelieu, where he discovers he might just be the only man with the talents to save France from her deadliest foes.

The Cardinal’s Man is a spellbinding story of France in the time of Richelieu and provides us with a very different kind of hero, a dwarf with the wit of Tyrion Lannister and three foot four inches of brazen pluck.

 

Praise for The Cardinal’s Man

‘Gritty and lively… a colourful depiction of 17th-century France’
– Carol Birch, author of Jamrach’s Menagerie

‘Intelligent, cunning and occasionally reckless, Sebastian Morra lights up The Cardinal’s Man with his zest for survival. The excesses and squalor of 17th century France are brought viscerally and vividly to life in this engaging, beautifully researched novel’
–Victoria Blake, author of The Return of the Courtesan

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