Series
The Genoese Triptych
Three novels, three centuries, one city. Genoa built its fortune on ships, seals and ledgers, and on the men who made them. Each panel follows one of those makers at the moment his craft decides more than he meant it to: a shipwright at Jerusalem in 1099, a factor in besieged Caffa in 1343, a clerk across the water from Constantinople in 1453.
Each novel stands on its own. Read in order, they trace one city across three hundred and fifty years.
Reading order
I
The Master of the Adze
Genoa and Jerusalem, 1099
Available nowHe could see the true line in a piece of oak. He could not see what he was building.
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II
The Master of the Seal
Caffa and the sea road west, 1343
Available nowHe saved them. That was the catastrophe.
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III
The Master of the Ledger
Pera, 1453
Available nowEvery figure in it was true. That was how the thing was done.
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