1610 A Sundial In A Grave ~ Mary Gentle ~ Large SC

'Robert Fludd, English physician and astrologer, wields the heritage of Doctor John Dee and Giordano Bruno: he uses their method of foretelling the future. It appears to work. Fludd doesn't like the centuries that he is predicting. So someone will have to change the future....Valentin Rochefort, duellist, down-at-heels aristocrat and spy for the Duc de Sully, France's powerful finance minister, has troubles of his own, thank you very much - not the least of which is Dariole, a young man of his acquaintance who is (in Rochefort's opinion) lust walking on two legs, and as irresponsible as an alley-cat. The last thing Rochefort needs is a mad English astrologer in his life.Continental Europe is briefly at peace - but Henri IV is planning to invade the German principalities. In England, only five years earlier, conspirators nearly succeeded in blowing up King James and his Parliament. The seeds of the English Civil War and the Thirty Years War are visibly being sown....For a man of no conscience, Rochefort is about to find himself caught between loyalty, love - and blackmail - between kings, queens, politicians and Rosicrucians - and all this before he encounters the woman he has, unknowingly, crossed land and sea to meet. Robert Fludd is pulling the strings. And Rochefort is not a man who takes kindly to being someone's puppet....'