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“A totally fascinating concept – well written and engaging, ever urging the reader to more. In fact, I read long after ‘lights out’ last night, wooed by the intensity and depth of the story, and by the superb writing. The tension is remarkable and even though this is his first novel, Mr. Cane writes with the authority of an established author. I can’t wait to get back to the book this evening!” D. Arcadian.

You will not find a book more startling in its revelations, or more dramatic in its exposure of the lies and crimes hidden for centuries by the rich and powerful. At the heart of the story is a boy born after a brief affair between the young Michelangelo and an African slave girl: his name is Aly, and he recounts his amazing tale as an old man while looking back for the meaning of his life, and awaiting the assassins who would eventually take it.

He tells how the Princes did not die in the Tower, and how the ex-king married the daughter of a lady whose face is still known to us all. He tells how Columbus stole the fame of discovery from his two captains, who visited the Americas three years before him. He tells of the horrors he saw unleashed upon the people of the Caribbean, and how in consequence he dedicated his life to resisting Spain’s plan to make the world its slave. We glimpse him helping his father paint the frescos in the Sistine Chapel, and listen as he discovers the horrific blueprint hidden in the backdrop of the Mona Lisa. He tells of seducing the most powerful woman in Europe, and of killing tyrants both famous and evil. Older, he falls in love with a young princess, fathers a child by her, then puts her – the Virgin Queen – on the throne. Never forgetting Spain, he next masterminds the theft of vast hoards of Spanish silver and gold, treasure for Elizabeth to build a navy able to save England from any Spanish Armada.

It is a tale that not only takes our breath away, but one to change how we see the world around us. It exposes how ‘truth’ is created to deceive, how fairy tales can be transformed into ‘history’, and how words mask ‘reality’. It is a book for those who do not fear their most basic ideas being challenged, but more importantly, it is a book for the 21st Century, when all we hold dear is in peril from avaricious billionaires, and the corrupt and twisted politicians that work for them.

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