These Wicked Devices

THE HOLY CITY IS NO PLACE FOR MERCY''Matthew Plampin should rank with the best'' Sunday Times''Plampin is heartbreakingly good'' The Times''Gripping, immersive, at times very funny and beautifully written, this is historical fiction of the highest quality'' Elizabeth FremantleRome, 1650. The streets are teeming as thousands of pilgrims flood in for the Holy Jubilee, but behind the gilded façade of...