A stooge for the Inquisition in seventeenth-century Florence, Grand Duke Cosimo embarks on his relentless persecution of all knowledge and art, while conspirators work to protect great Renaissance works from destruction.
Bob Marshall-Andrews is a writer and criminal silk based in London. From 1997 to 2010 he was Labour MP for Medway. As a result of his relationship with New Labour, one magazine described him as 'the thorn in Tony Blair's Red Rose'. His political memoir Off Message was published by Profile in 2011. Dump is his fourth novel. He lives in London and Pembrokeshire and is frequently in East Africa in his role as Chairman of the George Adamson Wildlife Trust.
