Capital Offense: Merchant Prince III [Mass Market Paperback]

Armin Shimerman (Author)

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Series: Merchant Prince | Publication Date: November 28, 2003

I was born on the thirteenth day of July in the eighteenth year of the reign of His Glorious Majesty Henry VIII, in the one thousand five hundred and twenty-seventh year after our Lord's death. I had the great good fortune to be born an Englishman, and when I came of age in both knowledge and reason, I served my country and my queen, Elizabeth Regina. Trapped by the Medici, I was condemned as a heretic and a spy, walled up alive, condemned to die for queen and country. Instead the hand of Fortune swept me up and I was spared.

It is now the eighteenth day of March in the year 2101, and I am as trapped as I was in Venice. Fortune's servant, Dyckon, a creature called the Roc -- who by his very countenance calls forth the living visage of the Dark Ones -- swears he will find a way to send me home, to my time, my place, my queen. But the forces of this time and place rage against me as surely as did the Medicis. Others of Dyckon's race even now look to wipe clean the face of the planet of every human. The powers of this time plot to subjugate me with their horrible machine -- an identity chip. And if these powers were to find out that I was in league with the Roc, I would be condemned.

It will take all the skills I learned as a spymaster to keep me free, to stop the Roc, and set me on the path to home.

THE SPELLBINDING CONCLUSION OF THE SAGA OF THE MERCHANT PRINCE, DOCTOR JOHN DEE.

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Kenneth Plume Filmforce A deft work of historical fiction...Shimerman combines a sense of fun too rarely seen in today's science fiction. -- Review

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Star (November 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671035940
• ISBN-13: 978-0671035945
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,537,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars If you enjoyed the original Merchant Prince, don't buy this book, May 3, 2009

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Chad Cloman (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Capital Offense: Merchant Prince III (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is essentially a 350-page diatribe about human rights abuses by the government that are allowed to happen in the name of the war against terror--although in this book it's the war against aliens. The first book in the trilogy, The Merchant Prince, was a fun read. The second, The Merchant Prince Volume 2: Outrageous Fortune, was also interesting although a bit more serious. Capital Offense, however, is nothing more than a rant by the author. I'm not going to judge his take on the matter, and actually found it to be pretty convincing, but what I wanted and expected was more of what I read in the original Merchant Prince.

This is also the only book of the trilogy where Armin Shimerman (who played Quark in Star Trek and Principal Snyder in Buffy) did all the writing. In the first two books, he paired with experienced science fiction authors. The difference is telling, not in the quality of the writing but in the quality of the plot.