The Instruments of Control (2015)
“Merrion had brought in his man Iago, a wiry Verinian with frazzled black hair and bloodshot eyes. The spymaster leaned over the map table, rearranging marble weights and markers in accordance with Iago’s tale. “—Carlo hasn’t been sober since they put that cap on his head,” Iago said. “Might as well fix strings to his wrists and ankles. The College of Cardinals thinks they’re in control, but that Marchetti’s the real puppet master.” “Lodovico Marchetti,” the spymaster mused. “That name has appea...red in more than one dispatch of late. We know at least two members of Mirenze’s Council of Nine—ones who have history with the Marchetti family—have been assassinated. Another member of the council was killed in the raid on al-Tali that very same night.” “Hell of a coincidence,” Rhys said, still pacing. Movement helped him think. “I don’t believe in coincidences,” Merrion said, “and this has all the makings of a greater scheme. So. Lodovico subverts the Church, making a servant of its pope, and then circumstances arise that might make Emperor Theodosius’s dream of a Third Crusade a reality.”MoreLess
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