Assassin'S Creed: The Magus Conspiracy Av Kate Heartfield

<B>The war between Assassins and Templars wreaks havoc in the Victorian era, in this breakneck thriller which opens up a whole new chapter of the <I>Assassin’s Creed </I>universe.</B><BR/><BR/><B>​From <I>Sunday Times</I> best selling author of <I>The Embroidered Book</I>, Kate Heartfield</B><BR/><BR/><I>London, 1851</I>— When Pierette, a daring acrobat performing at the Great Exhibition, rescues the mathematician Ada Lovelace from a gang of thugs, she becomes immersed in an ancient feud between Assassins and Templars. But Lovelace is gravely ill, and shares her secrets with Pierette, sending the acrobat in search of a terrible weapon – the Engine of History – which she’d been developing for a shadowy figure known as “the Magus”. Pierette’s only ally is Simeon Price, Lovelace’s childhood friend who belongs to a Brotherhood devoted to freedom. With Simeon’s aid, they uncover a startling web of political assassina