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Knight of swords / Ian Breckon.

by Breckon, Ian, 1970-

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Counterpoint, c2011.

War casualties -- Fiction.

Nobility -- Italy -- Fiction.

Italy -- History -- Allied occupation, 1943-1947 -- Fiction.

9781582437422 (trade pbk.)

1582437424 (trade pbk.)

280 p. ; 21 cm.

"Winter 1944: northern Italy is a battlefield, with Communist partisans locked in vicious conflict with the forces of Mussolini's fascist Republic of Salo. Brookes, a wounded fugitive, finds shelter in an isolated and decaying castle in the mountains, home to a reclusive nobleman and his family. But as he recovers his strength, he discovers that the inhabitants of the castle are not quite what they seem; he also realizes that they have no intention of letting him leave. Snowed in through the long winter, Brookes, the Barone, and his family are drawn into a complex game of power and seduction. And as the violent demands of the warring world outside the castle become ever more insistent, they face a final choice: a decision that will determine the living from the dead" -- Cover verso.

Historical mystery fiction.

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