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Apr 19, 2018tjdickey rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Rock's protagonist is a former Musketeer and reluctant Jesuit in the exciting and dangerous milieu of Ancien Regime Paris. The plot, rife with murders and attempted murders of young schoolboys in a famous Latin Quartier Academy proceeds at a breathless pace, made extremely vivid by the details of the author's mise en scene - a sensuous mingling of historical cuisine, and dance and entertainment, and theological and political intrigue, and even fashion.