The Alchemist of Genoa

What price would you pay to uphold the truth?

It is February 1587. In England, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded on the orders of the Privy Council. In Spain, Philip II plans his 'Enterprise of England': an invasion by a huge Armada to remove Queen Elizabeth and reinstate the Catholic faith. As rumours of all-out war circulate, Genoa's bankers and merchants wait - and watch. What they do not know is that a 'cold war' is already under way, money is the weapon, and their city - Europe's leading ...