Dimensions
111 x 178 x 24mm
Florence, 1518. Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing machines work, and the Industrial Revolution has happened centuries early. When Pasquale, a young painter, teams up with the hard-drinking journalist Machiavegli to investigate a murder in a locked tower room, they stumble into a conspiracy of politics, necromancy and assassination. As they pursue the ever-more-twisted case through Florence's acetylene-lit streets, the only certainty is that they could be next on the hit list.
'Pasquale's Angel', winner of the Sidewise Award, is part thriller, part historical novel and part novel of ideas. This is the Renaissance as it might have been if da Vinci had worked as an engineer rather than an artist. It is compulsively readable and convincing in every detail.
Paul J. McAuley is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award.
