Minus One

Mystery, love, betrayal and dishonour set in sixteenth century Genoa.

He was the most skilled of assassins, trained from boyhood to eliminate the Doge’s enemies. For decades, he lived in the shadows under an anonymous identity, but bound by an oath, Grifo is forced to wield his deadly knives once more. What lies beneath the death of the Doge Gerolamo Chiavari? Who is blackmailing the Regent? How many people must he kill to find out?

Set in Genoa at the turn of the 17^th century, amidst the splendor of palaces and the shadows of alleyways, in a city shaken by conspiracies and power struggles, Lorenzo Beccati’s gripping historical thriller plunges the reader into a world of mystery, romance, betrayal, and dishonor.