Lorenzo's Assassin

A devout Catholic soldier struggles to obey his Pope even after he has been befriended by Lorenzo.

A beautiful girl loses the love of Lorenzo's handsome brother and resorts to witchcraft to regain it.

A Greek scholar seeks revenge for the death of his lover twenty-five years earlier.

From the unfinished Sistine Chapel, to the altar beneath Brunelleschi's dome, to the fire tunnels under the great Theodosian Wall inbesieged Constantinople,Lorenzo's Assassintells three intertwined stories of love, vengeance and forgiveness.

Lorenzo's Assassin is John Van Roekel's third book, joining his World War II home front novel, Prisoner Moon,and his epic Buffalo Soldiers novel, Braver Deeds. John lives in sunny San Diego with his wife, Pam.