The Order of the Furies
1795: A Novel
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Publisher Description
The spellbinding and eerie finale to the #1 internationally bestselling “cerebral, immersive” (The Washington Post) historical trilogy follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm.
For more than a year, Emil Winge has dedicated himself to capturing the diabolical Tycho Ceton, with the invaluable assistance of one-armed army veteran and watchman Jean Michael Cardell. Their mission is made more difficult by the ever-increasing paranoia gripping Sweden’s royal family, who fear that a bloody revolution is brewing. A letter with the names of the revolutionary conspirators is said to be in the possession of Anna Stina Knapp, a good friend to Cardell. Now, Anna is missing and Cardell is determined to find her before the secret police take her into custody.
While Winge and Cardell fight for justice and for life, they find themselves caught between powerful enemies—those who will do anything to maintain the status quo, and those who will only be satisfied with its total destruction.
Writing with “thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful” (Fredrik Backman) vigor and style, Niklas Natt och Dag brilliantly concludes his immersion into the dark and turbulent waters of 18th-century Stockholm.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Natt och Dag triumphantly concludes his 18th-century Bellman noir trilogy (after 1794: The City Between the Bridges) with this grim and captivating political thriller. Three years after the assassination of King Gustav III, Sweden is governed by the despotic GustavAdolf Reuterholm, whose regency is under threat from Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, the late monarch's favorite member of the royal court. Armfelt has become a fugitive after leading a squashed plot to overthrow Reuterholm; meanwhile, his imprisoned lover, noblewoman Magdalena Rudenschöld, has passed a list of the rebellion's conspirators to escaping inmate Anna Stina Knapp. Reuterholm's thugs set out to find and kill Knapp, while her friend, Jean Michael "Mickel" Cardell, partners with brilliant university student Emile Winge to locate her first. Natt och Dag fortifies his tense plotting with evocative prose (ringing bells remind one character of "the toll of tentacles seeking him and no one else, singing out his vulnerability for all to hear") and transporting historical detail. It's a brutal, satisfying end to a superior series.
