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THE BORGIA RING
Fiction (Thriller) 471 pages
Arrow - July 30, 2009
Pendragon investigates the discovery of an ancient skeleton, wearing an emerald ring, below the excavations for a new city building. The disappearance of the ring leads him to a deranged killer. Interwoven is a historical thread that takes us to Rome, Paris and England in the mid-1600’s, with two Catholic extremists who have undertaken to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I. The mysterious ring is reputed to have belonged to Lucrezia Borgia. But how did it surface in London 400 years later?
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THE MEDICI SECRET
Fiction (Thriller) 409 pages
Arrow - February 28, 2008
Fleeing for his life amid the swirling murky waters of the 1966 Florence floods, the Warden of the Medici Chapel rescues a metal tube from the vault containing more than 50 Medici tombs.
In present-day Florence, scientists are working in the vault, analysing the embalmed bodies to determine the cause of death of some of the most important Medici figures. When they work on the bodies of Cosimo de’ Medici and his wife, the academics are divided – are they Medici bodies or are they substitutes? And if this is not the leading Renaissance figure of his day, where is the real body? When one of the researchers is murdered, and the material he was working on stolen, the investigation moves from scientific to criminal.
A fast-paced thriller set in Florence and Venice that bring the Renaissance and its mysteries into present day focus. -
EQUINOX
Fiction (Thriller) 336 pages
Arrow - October 6, 2006
‘A blood-soaked but entertaining thriller.’ -- The Times
Biography
British born, Australian based writer whose debut novel, EQUINOX, has been sold in twenty-seven languages and sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone.
The first Blake Friedmann client to have a music cd tied in to his novel.
In addition to EQUINOX, Michael is the author of 25 non-fiction titles including international bestsellers STEPHEN HAWKING: A LIFE IN SCIENCE (with John Gribbin), LEONARDO: THE FIRST SCIENTIST and TOLKEIN: A BIOGRAPHY. He is also the author of the award-winning ISAAC NEWTON: THE LAST SORCEROR and the Aventis Prize-nominated RIVALS.
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