Name: THE FIRST GATE
SKU: 69123433
Price: 553.00 TWD
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Author: Deborah J Hanson
ISBN: 9798176000276

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Deborah J Hanson

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196

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9798176000276

THE FIRST GATE

Deborah J Hanson (Author) · Independently published · Physical Book

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Synopsis "THE FIRST GATE"

Lisbon, 1412. A junior clerk learns his first lesson in the chancery: a document can be perfectly accurate in every line and still serve exactly the power that wrote it.As Portugal quietly assembles a fleet whose destination no one is permitted to name, one clerk's careful hand becomes indispensable to a secret too large for any single office to hold — and too dangerous for him to fully understand what he's helping to build. A leaked scrap of provisioning intelligence buys a merchant family's fortune and costs him a debt he'll carry for years. A concealed piece of seized property, taken the day Ceuta falls, becomes a silence he chooses not to break. By the time the city's gates close behind a garrison of men ordered to stay and hold what they've just taken, he has learned the hardest thing his training never taught him: that recording the truth and serving power are not always the same act — and a man who confuses them stops being a clerk and becomes something else entirely.The First Gate is Book One of a two-volume historical novel that follows the 1415 Portuguese conquest of Ceuta from the ground up — through the eyes of the clerks, merchants, retainers, and household officers whose ordinary, unglamorous work made an empire's first foothold in North Africa possible, and who paid for it in ways no chronicle ever thought worth recording. Read more