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Have you ever wondered what would happen today if the forces of good
in the world operated according to Niccolo Machiavelli’s principles?
Iran is building a nuclear weapon while the rest of the world seems powerless to stop it.
What would Niccolo Machiavelli do about it if he were alive today?
Cornell professor Jack McNair is the world’s leading authority on Machiavelli.
So he is amazed, while on a research trip to Florence, when he discovers a long lost letter
written by the great Italian philosopher. It lays out a brilliant plan to achieve world domination.
Back home, McNair watches today’s geo-political events unfold until it becomes clear that America's enemies seem
to be following the very plan contained in Machiavelli’s Letter. Though McNair is aware of how dangerous it will be, he
decides to risk everything to prevent it - but not alone.
McNair recruits an eclectic band of his former students to help him take on the daunting tasks of exposing the plot and
convincing Washington to stop it.
David Rodney – Former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and Kremlin. Can he help gain access to the highest levels of
government?
Mary McGuire – Internationally-acclaimed journalist and Middle-Eastern expert. Can she discover the link between
Islamic terrorists and their benefactors in Moscow?
Albert Taylor – Wealthy founder of TaylorTrade, the first Internet stock brokerage. Will he provide the financial
resources to fund their costly efforts?
Mark Ferguson – Rogue, former CIA operative. Can he keep this band of amateurs alive long enough to achieve their goal?
Their quest takes them from Ithaca, to New York, Washington, Beirut, Damascus, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas as they race
against time to defeat America’s enemies.
McNair and his team of modern-day crusaders (the crociati) frantically try to assemble compelling evidence before it's too late.
McNair, like a twenty-first century reincarnation of Machiavelli, leads them according the philosopher’s time-worn principles.
Most important, he knows that ...
“Politics has no relation to morals.”
If you read The Prince in school, then you know Machiavelli believed that man has a penchant for evil and that sometimes,
“the means justifies the ends.” If you have ever been frustrated that our enemies are deadly serious while we seem more
concerned about political correctness, then read The Machiavelli Letter.
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in the world operated according to Niccolo Machiavelli’s principles?
Iran is building a nuclear weapon while the rest of the world seems powerless to stop it.
What would Niccolo Machiavelli do about it if he were alive today?
Cornell professor Jack McNair is the world’s leading authority on Machiavelli.
So he is amazed, while on a research trip to Florence, when he discovers a long lost letter
written by the great Italian philosopher. It lays out a brilliant plan to achieve world domination.
Back home, McNair watches today’s geo-political events unfold until it becomes clear that America's enemies seem
to be following the very plan contained in Machiavelli’s Letter. Though McNair is aware of how dangerous it will be, he
decides to risk everything to prevent it - but not alone.
McNair recruits an eclectic band of his former students to help him take on the daunting tasks of exposing the plot and
convincing Washington to stop it.
David Rodney – Former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and Kremlin. Can he help gain access to the highest levels of
government?
Mary McGuire – Internationally-acclaimed journalist and Middle-Eastern expert. Can she discover the link between
Islamic terrorists and their benefactors in Moscow?
Albert Taylor – Wealthy founder of TaylorTrade, the first Internet stock brokerage. Will he provide the financial
resources to fund their costly efforts?
Mark Ferguson – Rogue, former CIA operative. Can he keep this band of amateurs alive long enough to achieve their goal?
Their quest takes them from Ithaca, to New York, Washington, Beirut, Damascus, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas as they race
against time to defeat America’s enemies.
McNair and his team of modern-day crusaders (the crociati) frantically try to assemble compelling evidence before it's too late.
McNair, like a twenty-first century reincarnation of Machiavelli, leads them according the philosopher’s time-worn principles.
Most important, he knows that ...
“Politics has no relation to morals.”
If you read The Prince in school, then you know Machiavelli believed that man has a penchant for evil and that sometimes,
“the means justifies the ends.” If you have ever been frustrated that our enemies are deadly serious while we seem more
concerned about political correctness, then read The Machiavelli Letter.
Only $4.99 on Amazon Kindle (U.S.) comparable pricing in all other countries
Part One of The Venetians saga
The House of Ziani and the House of Soranzo had been enemies ever since their grandfathers'
joint business venture had collapsed more than forty years before. Then, they had chosen not
to resolve their differences in the courts. Instead, they each sought to prevail in their rivalry by
investing, trading, and manipulating as each battled to dominate and ultimately ruin the other.
The fathers passed this legacy on to their sons....
A sleek Venetian fleet plows through stormy November seas, bearing reinforcements to help defend the fabled city of
Constantinople against an impending siege by Ottoman Turks. Rescue plans are jeopardized, however, when an age-old
bitter conflict flares between two Venetian nobles onboard: The brave naval Captain Giovanni Soranzo thirsts for
revenge against the proud marine officer, Antonio Ziani. These two men will survive the sacking of Constantinople and
will find their lives bound together in a heroic struggle to save their beloved city.
The year is 1452, and while Italy glories in the Renaissance, Venice is on the verge of an epic war of survival against the
powerful Turks, who are intent on conquering Venetian lands, possessing her riches, and utterly destroying the city forever.
Now these two patricians, both patriots, must temper their hostility toward each other with loyalty to their beloved republic.
Fighting each other when they can, fighting together when they must, Ziani and Soranzo risk their lives to defend Venice---
and their honor.
Much more than a war story, this is a tale of Venice, when she was the greatest city on earth and the world's only republic.
It is a tale, too, of her people, whose fortunes and very lives were dependent on her success. Admired, envied, hated, and feared,
but with her vast wealth and vaunted navy, always respected, she is La Serenissima---the Serene Republic of Venice---and
this is her story.
Only $7.99 on Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook (price set by publisher)
The House of Ziani and the House of Soranzo had been enemies ever since their grandfathers'
joint business venture had collapsed more than forty years before. Then, they had chosen not
to resolve their differences in the courts. Instead, they each sought to prevail in their rivalry by
investing, trading, and manipulating as each battled to dominate and ultimately ruin the other.
The fathers passed this legacy on to their sons....
A sleek Venetian fleet plows through stormy November seas, bearing reinforcements to help defend the fabled city of
Constantinople against an impending siege by Ottoman Turks. Rescue plans are jeopardized, however, when an age-old
bitter conflict flares between two Venetian nobles onboard: The brave naval Captain Giovanni Soranzo thirsts for
revenge against the proud marine officer, Antonio Ziani. These two men will survive the sacking of Constantinople and
will find their lives bound together in a heroic struggle to save their beloved city.
The year is 1452, and while Italy glories in the Renaissance, Venice is on the verge of an epic war of survival against the
powerful Turks, who are intent on conquering Venetian lands, possessing her riches, and utterly destroying the city forever.
Now these two patricians, both patriots, must temper their hostility toward each other with loyalty to their beloved republic.
Fighting each other when they can, fighting together when they must, Ziani and Soranzo risk their lives to defend Venice---
and their honor.
Much more than a war story, this is a tale of Venice, when she was the greatest city on earth and the world's only republic.
It is a tale, too, of her people, whose fortunes and very lives were dependent on her success. Admired, envied, hated, and feared,
but with her vast wealth and vaunted navy, always respected, she is La Serenissima---the Serene Republic of Venice---and
this is her story.
Only $7.99 on Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook (price set by publisher)
Part Two of The Venetians saga
The powerful, raging second novel in The Venetians trilogy that tells of the bitter and enduring conflict between
two powerful Italian noble families. The Lion of St. Mark told the story of the deep-seated rivalry between the
patrician Ziani and Soranzo families---a long history of hatred and strife that had passed from one generation to
the next. In the end, the brave Antonio Ziani and the proud Giovanni Soranzo set aside their personal vendettas
against each other in order to save their beloved city of Venice from attack by the Ottoman Turks.
But their truce could not endure. Though Venice has managed to remain free from invasion, danger still looms on the horizon as she is threatened, in turn,
by her implacable foes---the Turks, rival Italian city-states, and the papacy, all seeking to reduce her legendary power and possess her great wealth.
In these perilous times, new members of the Ziani and Soranzo families wage a bitter and violent campaign of retribution against one another.
The truce that Giovanni and Antonio had made together proves fleeting as their sons resume the passionate feud with even greater malice.
Told against the backdrop of historical events---the continuing war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, the Ferrara War that exploded
across the Italian peninsula, and the constant intrigues of the powerful papacy---The Sword of Venice brings to life the Ziani and Soranzo families,
who must cope with love, loss, treachery, kidnapping, murder, war, and peace. As invading forces march ever closer, Venice and her leading
families must fight for survival or perish with their city.
Only $7.99 on Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook (price set by publisher)
The powerful, raging second novel in The Venetians trilogy that tells of the bitter and enduring conflict between
two powerful Italian noble families. The Lion of St. Mark told the story of the deep-seated rivalry between the
patrician Ziani and Soranzo families---a long history of hatred and strife that had passed from one generation to
the next. In the end, the brave Antonio Ziani and the proud Giovanni Soranzo set aside their personal vendettas
against each other in order to save their beloved city of Venice from attack by the Ottoman Turks.
But their truce could not endure. Though Venice has managed to remain free from invasion, danger still looms on the horizon as she is threatened, in turn,
by her implacable foes---the Turks, rival Italian city-states, and the papacy, all seeking to reduce her legendary power and possess her great wealth.
In these perilous times, new members of the Ziani and Soranzo families wage a bitter and violent campaign of retribution against one another.
The truce that Giovanni and Antonio had made together proves fleeting as their sons resume the passionate feud with even greater malice.
Told against the backdrop of historical events---the continuing war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, the Ferrara War that exploded
across the Italian peninsula, and the constant intrigues of the powerful papacy---The Sword of Venice brings to life the Ziani and Soranzo families,
who must cope with love, loss, treachery, kidnapping, murder, war, and peace. As invading forces march ever closer, Venice and her leading
families must fight for survival or perish with their city.
Only $7.99 on Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook (price set by publisher)