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The Widow's Son

by Robert Anton WilsonBook 2 of 3 in The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles
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It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined to play an important part in this history-behind-history. The masons, the English nobility, the Jabobites, the Rosicrucians, the ruling clique of pre-Revolution France: these are but a few of the factions involved in the machinations and intrigue in which Sigismundo has become enmeshed.Thrown into the Bastille, shot at, assaulted by assassins, tortured, and brutally interrogated, he knows only what he is and what he must do to become the one spoken of in the old texts. But what he doesn't know could kill him: the secret powers of Maria, the Italian beauty who has become an English Lady; the Irish fisherman, Moon, who stumbles across the inner workings of an unsuspected cult; and the question they keep asking: the identity of The Widow's Son.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatIncidental
HorrorCreepy

Details

First published
November 1985
Pages
343
Reading time
About 7 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
New Falcon Publications
Language
English
ISBN
9781561841639
Series
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Book 2

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