The Dagger in the Pie transports readers to Renaissance Italy's treacherous courts, where exiled Medici heir Lorenzo conspires with battle-weary mercenary Marco da Volterra to assassinate Florence's tyrannical ruler Cesare di Montefeltro. Their audacious plot-hatched in Venice's darkest taverns and culminating in a deadly culinary gambit-tests the boundaries of political vengeance and personal sacrifice in an era where power shifts at knife-point.
The Dagger in the Pie transports readers to Renaissance Italy's treacherous courts, where exiled Medici heir Lorenzo conspires with battle-weary mercenary Marco da Volterra to assassinate Florence's tyrannical ruler Cesare di Montefeltro. Their audacious plot-hatched in Venice's darkest taverns and culminating in a deadly culinary gambit-tests the boundaries of political vengeance and personal sacrifice in an era where power shifts at knife-point.