<p><strong><em>Only players on a stage.</em></strong></p>
<p>Thaddeus worked his way to the top of his profession. As an inquisitor to the Doge, he enjoyed all the comforts middle-classed Venice had to offer.</p>
<p>That is until he was saddled with the sniveling scribe from Padua, Geovanni. Now his life had taken a turn for the bizarre.</p>
<p>Given the impossible task of discovering the source of a strange plague, the inquisitor and scribe have been banished from Venice until a resolution is ferreted out.</p>
<p>Strangeness stalks the land, and it isn't the Turks. The pair's first task is to reach the infected town of Udine intact.</p>
<p>Will they be able to find the source, and return? Will they survive?</p>
<p>Read the first book <em>Inquisitor,</em> in the Thaddeus of Venice trilogy, to find out.</p>