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The Enterprise of Death Paperback – Bargain Price, March 24, 2011

by Jesse Bullington (Author)

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As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent.

She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.

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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Orbit; 1 edition (March 24, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316087343
ISBN-13: 978-0316087346
ASIN: B007SRWXRQ
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,452,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1675 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Metaphysical & Visionary
- #2194 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Men's Adventure
- #5468 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical > Fantasy

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One of the Best Books I've Read in a Long Time

By Orrin Grey on April 18, 2011

Format: Paperback

While both Jesse Bullington's debut novel and this follow up take us on a madcap tour of supernatural and historical Europe, their protagonists could not be more different. The story of The Enterprise of Death concerns Awa, who is apprenticed against her will to a necromancer and subsequently finds herself caught up in his machinations. Awa is a Moor, a lesbian and a necromancer in her own right, any one of which would probably be enough to get her into a great deal of trouble in 16th Century Europe, and she's joined in her adventures by real-life historical figures like painter and mercenary Niklaus Manuel Deutsch and even Paracelsus himself, not to mention larger-than-life figures like Monique the gun-toting soldier of fortune and Awa's various undead allies and enemies.

Like The Brothers Grossbart before it, Enterprise isn't for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. There's necrophilia, cannibalism, syphilis, reanimated corpses, and corpse-eating monsters, to name just a few. But while Enterprise is often just as gruesome, macabre, profane, and scatalogical as its predecessor, it's also much more human. While the titular Grossbart Brothers were great broad characters, the cast of Enterprise all seem more fully created and their pathos more deeply felt. It would be hard to find a hero in all of The Brothers Grossbart, but Enterprise is full of characters who, while deeply flawed, are also often genuinely heroic in their longing to do what's right.

Ultimately, The Enterprise of Death, like so many great fantasy novels, is a story of friendship and acceptance. There's a quest, as well, and magic, and monsters (just wait 'til you meet the Bastards of the Schwartzwald), but the friendships form the book's beating heart.Read more ›

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Nothing like it...

By Selena on July 4, 2011

Format: Paperback

Jesse Bullington's Enterprise of Death is incomparable to anything I have read to date. It tells the tale of Awa, an African slave who is marooned with her mistress on an island populated by the walking dead and their necromancer master. She survives to become a reluctant apprentice to the necromancer, and buys her time until she can escape. However, her freedom has a ten year expiration date, thanks to a precautionary curse placed upon her by the Necromancer. So she must set out to lift the curse and defeat the old Wizard, and does so by enlisting the help of renaissance painter/mercenary solider Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, who is based upon the artist of the iconic Death and the Maiden, which the cover art for the novel is based on.

One thing that makes this book unique is the balance that is struck between the fun and silliness one can have in fantasy adventure yarns, and the poignancy one can conjure from the supernatural and unexplained. Fans of Grossbarts will find the same well-researched and immersive historical backdrop, but rather than medieval Germany, it is Renaissance Spain. There are horrendous and terrifying monsters, and scenes that'll make the faint of heart squirm, and the hard of heart fist-pump the air. However, the tone is different than Grossbarts, and is not as darkly humored, because at its core Enterprise is a heartbreaking tale of unrequited love, of lifelong friendship, bildungsroman, and sexuality. Having serious themes like this set upon a backdrop of a ghoulish and terrifying world makes a magical and poetical concoction that toes the lines between Thomas Hardy's philosophical disparity and Lovecraft's cosmic fear. But unlike the characters in Hardy and Lovecraft, Awa finds people who accept her for who she is, and helps her find herself by their acceptance, and ultimately gets by with a little help from these friends. Really, that's all any of us can hope for, so I don't find the novel that bleak--just honest.

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A strange, wonderful read that I would love to revist again

By Sally Bend on April 21, 2011

Format: Paperback

This is a wonderfully messed-up book, set in a wonderfully messy world, that comes across as a mixture of Terry Gilliam's most surreal, Tim Burton's most unusual, and Clive Barker' most sexual. It's a book of nightmares and fantasies that are as much the Brothers Grimm as they are the Marquis de Sade. This is a darkly cynical tale of human history, told not by the historians (and not even by the victors), but by the sad souls forced to live out its cruelties and delights, armed only with an unflinching eye and a very dark sense of humour. As readers, this is a story that demands of us an empty stomach and an open mind, as it repeatedly gives rise to open eyes and open mouths - as often in delight as in disgust.

The only thing that initially bothered me about the book was the writing style. The story regularly leaps between past and present, a narrative device that is further confused by frequent jumps in viewpoint from one character to another. As far as the language goes, it's a story that's written in a 15th century style (with some quirky turns of phrase), but full of very 21st century dialogue (that, at one time or another, is guaranteed to make every reader blush at least once). Yet, despite the contradictions and confusions, it all works . . . once the story comes together in your head, it holds fast for the duration.

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Great Author, Original Story

By Ann on October 22, 2012

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I love this author's writing style and original storyline. As one reader mentioned, there is a bit of jumping around which got irritating at times, but the author always managed to keep me reading, which is not easy. The characters were not what I would call believable, but they were fairly interesting as a motley group of unlikely characters. As a matter of fact, Bullington seems to be pushing the envelope with the whole unlikely characters concept, maybe a bit too far. Really, how long would you expect an African lesbian to last in Europe during the Inquisition before being outed and chased from every town and village she got near- even Paris? Especially when accompanied by a hulking foul-mouthed dyke! I find it impossible to think these characters could have existed in their time as they did. But, I guess that's why they call it "fiction". I liked the story for the most part, but not as much as I liked The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, which was far more humorous to me and more engaging. My biggest complaint is that near the end the author states that he will not tell how this and this and that turned out, it makes me expect a sequel, which does not seem forthcoming and thus is disappointing. Complaints aside, I enjoyed this book and look forward to Bullington's next.

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