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Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle Series #1)

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Quicksilver 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 adventurer and legendary King of the Vag...

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