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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: May 2001
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 482
Whatever the period, count on Cornwell to serve up the details on which verisimilitude thrives. Lots of that here, maybe more than required, but it's a sturdy story, too--an ancient sibling rivalry full of enough blood and thunder to hold anyone's interest.
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