The Malice of Fortune

"A highly intelligent historical thriller" The Sunday Times "Ennis' gripping historical thriller conjures up the unpredictable, dangerous world of Renaissance Italy with great panache." BBC History Magazine "Vivid, well defined, THE MALICE OF FORTUNE captures the glorious and gritty details of Renaissance Italy in a propulsive story." Mathew Pearl, author of THE DANTE CLUB "Fascinating, engrossing and wickedly clever. THE MALICE OF FORTUNE captured my attention up front and kept me turning the pages to the very end." Douglas Preston "THE MALICE OF FORTUNE dishes out a simmering stew, thick with chicanery, bloodshed, dastardly deeds, code-breaking and puzzle-solving." Katherine Neville, author of THE EIGHT

"Vivid, well defined, THE MALICE OF FORTUNE captures the glorious and gritty details of Renaissance Italy in a propulsive story." Mathew Pearl, author of THE DANTE CLUB "Fascinating, engrossing and wickedly clever. THE MALICE OF FORTUNE captured my attention up front and kept me turning the pages to the very end." Douglas Preston "THE MALICE OF FORTUNE dishes out a simmering stew, thick with chicanery, bloodshed, dastardly deeds, code-breaking and puzzle-solving." Katherine Neville, author of THE EIGHT "A powerful thinking-man's thriller." Glenn Cooper, author of LIBRARY OF THE DEAD

Michael Ennis studied history at the University of California, Berkeley, taught history at the University of Texas, Austin, and developed museum programmes as a Rockerfeller Foundation Fellow. He is the author of two historical novels, Duchess of Milan and Byzantium, and lives in Dallas with his television producer wife, Ellen, and their daughter, Arielle.