The Venetian Heretic
On sale
20th November 2025
Price: £9.99
In a city of masks, no one is what they seem . . .
Englishman Richard Hughes has survived a stint as a galley slave and is now a free man in Venice, where he enjoys a modest life as a fencing master.
He believes he has long-since left behind the ideals that landed him in slavery…until he stumbles across an attempted murder close to home. As he hunts for the red-masked assassin who is picking off the city’s Libertini, Richard and his new rescued friend ‘Philip’ are drawn into a conspiracy that stretches from Venice to the Vatican and beyond…
This is the Venice of waterfront palaces, romance, Carnivale and gondolas – but also of sharp swords, lawless criminals and ruthless assassins; based on real events and richly brought to life by the master of historical fiction, Christian Cameron.
Englishman Richard Hughes has survived a stint as a galley slave and is now a free man in Venice, where he enjoys a modest life as a fencing master.
He believes he has long-since left behind the ideals that landed him in slavery…until he stumbles across an attempted murder close to home. As he hunts for the red-masked assassin who is picking off the city’s Libertini, Richard and his new rescued friend ‘Philip’ are drawn into a conspiracy that stretches from Venice to the Vatican and beyond…
This is the Venice of waterfront palaces, romance, Carnivale and gondolas – but also of sharp swords, lawless criminals and ruthless assassins; based on real events and richly brought to life by the master of historical fiction, Christian Cameron.
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