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UNCORRECTED BOUND PROOF (large size : 152mm x 230mm). Unread. Minor crease at the bottom edge of the front cover. Comes complete with the publisher’s publicity handout. Act One of The Assassini. “Venice 1407: The city’s rulers command the seas and dictate the law. Yet they fear assassins more deadly than their own and their canals running red with blood. Duke Marco rules Venice in theory but he is a simpleton so his aunt and uncle vie for power in his name. But an act of aggression will overshadow their conflict when the Duke’s young cousin is kidnapped by Mamluk pirates. And her abduction will trigger war. Elsewhere, Atilo, the Duke’s chief assassin, has cut a man’s throat. Hearing a noise, he turns back to find a boy drinking from the victim’s wound. The speed with which the angel-faced boy dodges his dagger stuns Atilo and he resolves to hunt him down. Not to silence him, but because he’s found the impossible . . . someone to be his apprentice.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATED DESPATCH