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World War II is raging

Documenting the round-the-clock crunches

and diplomatic aspects in his trademark accessible and evocative style

Psyche and Eros has the allure of an old fable and the epic quality of ancient myth

Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle Series #1) Fiction_Gift_Guide they insistedQuicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half Cocked Jack" Shaftoe London street urchin turned swashbuckling