"Great fun, thought-provoking, highly literate and beautifully written" -- <i>Daily Mail</i>
"Serious literary fun" -- K.W. Jeter
"Exquisite prose, exceptional characters and worldbuilding, and a rollicking good adventure to boot … A must read" -- George Mann
"The energy and inventiveness steaming along here to assure you it's a trip worth taking." -- http://www.sfreviews.net/
"An incredibly entertaining, fast-paced page turner." -- Tor.com
Touched by a malevolent alien intelligence with a vampiric lust for sensation and misery, Earth stands at a crossroads as many worlds have before it. When a rival species sends a warning to Earth, Machiavelli is transformed into a protector of mankind.
Travelling the ages, an unlikely hero immune to death, he must stop the corrupted, from the Borgias to Friedrich Nietzsche, before we destroy ourselves for the watcher’s pleasure.