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The Rose Knight's Crucifixion #2
The Three Monks of Tears: The Rose Knight’s Crucifixion #2
Historical thriller, parallel novel to Dumas� Three hunchback Louis d’Astarac, to cure himself and win his lady, seeks the alchemical magic secrets of a lost Rosicrucian book, competing with Cardinal Richelieu, the Jesuits, English agents, and heretical cultists, while crossing paths time and again with d’Artagnan and the musketeers. Swashbuckling historical thriller, a parallel novel to Dumas’s The Three In 1619 the esoteric and forbidden magic of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood was compiled into a single volume, The Three Mystic Heirs, a book furiously destroyed by the Inquisition—except for one copy! And Louis d’Astarac thinks he knows how to find it. Louis is a young French noble, witty, cultured, and trained in all the social graces of a 17th century courtier. But he’s also a hunchback, stunted and deformed. Rejected by his lady-love Isabeau, Louis, desperate, can see only one way to win her cure his condition by using the secrets of spiritual alchemy hidden in The Three Mystic Heirs. The trail of the lost volume leads Louis to Paris, where he finds a friend in a young scholar named René Descartes—and an encounter with bloody murder. For the power of the Rosicrucian secrets is said to be great beyond measure, and the high and the mighty of Europe are after it as well. Louis becomes a player in a fast-moving game between agents of England’s Duke of Buckingham, France’s Cardinal Richelieu, the Jesuit Order of Rome � and the shadowy Rosicrucians themselves. And who is this noisy swordsman d’Artagnan, with his cronies the Three Musketeers, who keeps popping up at every turn? The Rose Knight’s Crucifixion, a Novel of Historical Adventure and a Romance of Ideas, Perversely Contiguous to Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, Volume The Three Mystic magic, romance, and adventure await!
312 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 6, 2018
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Lawrence Ellsworth
18Ìýbooks36ÌýfollowersLawrence Ellsworth is the pen name of Lawrence Schick. An authority on historical adventure fiction, Ellsworth is the translator of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Red Sphinx, and Blood Royal. Lawrence was born in the United States and now lives in Dublin.
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March 25, 2018
This is the second part of a parallel novel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers. It is quite fun to see how Ellsworth makes it fits with that novel. This reader does wish he'd alternated chapters of The Three Musketeers and The Three Monks of Tears as one can do but having just read Ellsworth's fantastic translation of The Three Musketeers he did not want to re-read it again immediately after having just finished it. This reader also wishes Ellsworth had included his notations rather than eluding to them on a website he maintains. His notations in The Three Musketeers were excellent and added to the reading of that novel.
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