The Unicorn Hunt: The House of Niccolo 5: x

The Unicorn Hunt: The House of Niccolo 5: x

by Dorothy Dunnett (Author)

Synopsis

As brilliant and dangerous, but no longer as joyous, as a firework, merchant banker Sir Nicholas De Fleury (former apprentice) has complex designs on the small kingdom of Scotland, ripe for development under the venturesome young King James III. But friends, foes and business rivals have other plans, and Nicholas is driven on a painful journey to the lands of his greatest suffering, Africa and Cyprus. Facing, this time, an enemy more subtle than Simon de St Pol, more vengeful than the Vatachino, more ruthless than Venice or the Church- his wife. For Gelis has a genius to match his own, the one weapon he cannot oppose, and a terrible, cruel purpose. And their bitter vendetta threatens to consume not only all Nicholas has, but all he is and could become... The Unicorn Hunt is volume five in The House of Niccolo Series.
'Terrifically exciting, complex and subtle, some wonderful set pieces and with a cliff hanging climax.'
The Times

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 880
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 24 Nov 1994

ISBN 10: 0140112677
ISBN 13: 9780140112672

Author Bio
Frequently described as the finest historical fiction writer of her time, Dorothy Dunnett earned worldwide acclaim for her blend of scholarship and imagination. She is best known for her two superb series of historical fiction - The Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolo - set in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and ranging across Europe and the Mediterranean, and for King Hereafter, the eleventh-century story of Earl Thorfinn of Orkney whom Dorothy believed was also King Macbeth. In 1992, Dorothy Dunnett was awarded the OBE for her services to literature, and in 2014 Dunnett's most enduring hero, Francis Crawford of Lymond, was voted Scotland's favourite literary character - beating the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and Ivanhoe. Dunnett died 9 November 2001, having sold half a million copies internationally.