By Dorothy Dunnett
Scotland, 1477: Nicholas de Fleury, former banker and service provider, has re-appeared within the land that, 4 years past, he had introduced very with reference to damage during an extreme advertisement and private struggle with mystery enemies--and, certainly, together with his smart spouse Gelis.
Now the chance for redemption is handy, yet Nicholas quickly reveals himself pursuing his targets amid a posh, corrosive energy fight centering at the Scottish royal relatives yet heavily concerning the robust retailers of Edinburgh, the gentry, the clergy, the English (ever looking an excuse to pounce on their neighbor to the north), the French, the Burgundians. His presence quickly attracts Gelis and their son Jodi to Scotland, in addition to Nicholas's partners and subordinates in lots of a previous endeavor--Dr. Tobias and his spouse Clémence, Mick Crackbene, John le furnish, and Andro Wodman between them. right here, too, Nicholas meets back with others who've had a power, for solid or evil, in his lifestyles: King James III of Scotland and his rebellious siblings; the St. Pols: Jordan, Simon, and younger Henry; Mistress Bel of Cuthilgurdy and David de Salmeton; Anselm Adorne and Kathi his niece. stuck up in, and occasionally molding, the process nice occasions, Nicholas shows through turns the fierce silence with which he mask his secrets and techniques, and the explosive, willful gaiety that binds males, girls, and youngsters to him. and because the secrets and techniques of his beginning and background come to mild, Nicholas has to choose no matter if he wants to determine a destiny in Scotland for himself and his relations, and a house for his descendants.
Gemini brings to a stunning end Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolò sequence (synopsized during this volume), during which this peerless novelist has vividly re-created the dramatic, flamboyant global of the early Renaissance in ancient writing of scrupulous authenticity and within the entrancing portrait of her visionary hero. Now, in a ebook infused with wit and poetry, emotion and humor, motion and secret, she brings Nicholas de Fleury finally to settle on his heart's domestic, the place he can workout all his talents as an consultant to kings and statesmen, as a husband, a father, and a pace-setter of men--and the place, maybe, we'll parent a connection among him and that different notable character, Francis Crawford, whose exploits woman Dunnett recorded so memorably in The Lymond Chronicles.
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