The Enterprise of Death

By Jesse Bullington

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007SRWXRQ
• ISBN13: 9780316087346
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Orbit
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

fun

A very interesting and original romp. I would recommend for everyone except the squeemish.

Indescribable and impossible to put down.

Literary gold. You won't be disappointed.