The Malice of Fortune is coming in September!

For five hundred years a terrifying secret has remained buried between the lines of the most controversial work in our literary canon, Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince.

Until now. 

THE MALICE OF FORTUNE by Michael EnnisMALICE WITH NEW FACES. A Doubleday book, available 9/11/2012

A junior Florentine diplomat named Niccolo Machiavelli. An itinerant military engineer named Leonardo da Vinci. And a Borgia scion who emerged from obscurity as the celebrated Duke Valentino. In the autumn of 1502, their fates collided in the remote Italian city of  Imola – a meeting of the minds that would forever alter the course of western civilization.

Part forensic murder mystery, part political thriller, and an unforgettable love story, The Malice of Fortune reveals the stunning secret Machiavelli concealed within The Prince. Based entirely on historical fact, The Malice of Fortune vividly re-creates the moment when the minds of men – and their methods of murder – entered the modern age. 

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE MALICE OF FORTUNE

The Malice of Fortune captures the glorious and gritty details of Renaissance Italy in a propulsive story. Ennis has achieved a great accomplishment, historical fiction that places us right into the characters’ present.

Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club and The Technologists

This is a fascinating novel, filled with extraordinary, well-realized historical characters and a plot that is engrossing and wickedly clever… kept me turning the pages to the very end.

Douglas Preston, coauthor of The Monster of Florence

For readers who’ve been waiting all these years for the next The Name of the Rose — here it is. Michael Ennis brings a scholar’s mind and a writer’s heart to this beautifully crafted work of Renaissance intrigue… A powerful thinking man’s thriller.

Glenn Cooper, author of Library of the Dead and Book of Souls

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From concept to publication, converting raw data into award-winning prose – and redefining Texas

  • Conceived, researched and wrote a series of national award-winning columns that challenged the conventional wisdom about Texas’s past, present and future.
  • Original demographic, economic, and historical research based on new internet resources and databases, as well as traditional archival records and face-to-face interviews.
  • Pioneering model of computer-assisted journalism
  • Reached an audience of one million in the state’s iconic publication, Texas Monthly.

 

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No Hat, No Cattle

Texas’s venerable myth, rooted in our rugged, wide-open spaces, is seriously in need of a big-city makeover.

by Michael Ennis

    Retro Texas, meet metro Texas. For generations the history-redolent mythology supposedly hardwired into every Texan’s brain has hallowed our rural wide-open spaces, even as the eastern third of the state has experienced an unprecedented explosion of urban culture. But retro Texas’s claim on our collective psyche is finally being challenged by its metropolitan alter ego. A sleeping demographic giant that has long considered itself an old cowhand is waking up to discover that it is really a city slicker….

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