The Mapmaker's Son, Volume I

Seville, 1491. Antonio Pera, called Falco, is twenty-one, quick with a blade, quicker with a pen, and sitting in a jail cell with a stranger who wants to know how he got there.

The answer runs back to 1453, to a burning city and a mapmaker who escaped it alone, carrying nothing but a silver falcon brooch and the memory of the wife and daughter he never found.

Now the son draws charts for a living, and charts are worth killing for. From the surrender of Granada to the crowded quays of the Expulsion, from Barbary corsairs to the sugar fields of the Canaries and the secret line that split the world at Tordesillas, Falco moves through the hinge years of the fifteenth century one dangerous commission at a time.

Every episode closes with a Chronicler’s Note: the real history behind the story, the treaties, decrees, ships and numbers, told plainly. Read the adventure, then find out how much of it actually happened.

Volume I of a new historical adventure series. A prologue and seven episodes. One falcon.