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About THE ASTROLOGER
Denmark in 1601 braces itself for a hard winter. King
Christian IV has moved the royal court from Copenhagen to the remote castle
Kronberg, from where he will launch a military campaign to purge Denmark of
rebellious factions. What the king doesn’t know is that he’s brought his
bitterest enemy with him to Kronberg. Soren Andersmann, the Danish royal
astrologer, has smuggled a trunk full of poisons, daggers, and a venomous snake
into the castle. Though Soren knows nothing of the assassin's trade, he has
sworn to be the instrument of justice. The king has murdered Soren's mentor and
spiritual father, Tycho Brahe, the most famous astronomer the world has seen.
Soren will have his revenge.
Inhabited by the spirit of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” while set
in historical Europe at the threshold of the Renaissance, The Astrologer is at once a tale of vengeance and an exploration of
the unfinished battle between deeply-held tradition and newfound ideas of
progress. The man of science and philosophy must choose between conflicting
loyalties to science, to family, to God, and to Denmark.
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Praise for a debut
The Astrologer is
a marvelous story of fierce revenge and murder as staggering as the
constellations above. I simply couldn't look away. A vivid debut!
--Michelle Davidson Argyle, author of The Breakaway and Monarch
It's elegant, it's sly, it's funny as all hell, and the
unreliable narrator is both heroic and heartbreaking; a poignant embodiment of
the Enlightenment fairytales our society likes to tell itself.
--Tara Maya, author of The
Unfinished Song and Conmergence
A philosophic stunner that evokes the wintry islands of
Beowulf and the castles of Hamlet. Set in the predawn of the Enlightenment,
Bailey's stargazing protagonist struggles against the dark forces that forever
keep us ignorant. Haunting, expansive, poetic, and it has sword fights.
--Layne Maheu, author of Song
of the Crow
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