by C.J. Sansom · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330411974
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«Dark Fire» is the historical mystery novel by C. J. Sansom, published by Pan Books in paperback (500 pages, in English).
In 1540, lawyer Matthew Shardlake defends a young woman accused of killing her cousin. The case puts him at the service of Thomas Cromwell: recover the formula for Greek Fire, the Byzantine weapon found in a London monastery. The official who found it and his brother are found murdered, and Shardlake follows the trail of the weapon.
Second installment of the Matthew Shardlake series, winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2005.
Christopher John Sansom was a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He also wrote the spy novel Winter in Madrid and the alternative history novel Dominion. He won numerous book awards, including the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2013 and the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2022. Shardlake, a television series based on Sansom's novel Dissolution, started streaming on Disney+ less than a week after his death.
