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Dark Fire is a historical mystery novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is Sansom's second novel, released in 2004, and also the second in the Matthew Shardlake Series . Set in the 16th century during the reign of Tudor King Henry VIII , it follows hunchbacked lawyer Shardlake's search to recover the long-lost formula for Greek fire .
The series' protagonist is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer and then Jack Barak.. Shardlake works on commission, initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution [2] and Dark Fire, [3] then archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation, [4] queen Catherine Parr in Heartstone and Lamentation, and lately princess Elizabeth in Tombland.
C. J. Sansom. Christopher John Sansom (9 December 1952 – 27 April 2024) was a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He also wrote the spy novel Winter in Madrid and the alternate history novel Dominion. He won numerous book awards, including the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the ...
Greek fire. Στόλος Ρωμαίων πυρπολῶν τὸν τῶν ἐναντίων στόλον, "The Roman fleet burn the opposite fleet down" – A Eastern Roman Empire / Byzantine war ship using their "secret weapon" Greek Fire against a ship belonging to the rebel Thomas the Slav, AD 821. ( 12th century illustration from the ...
Colored fire. A campfire burning with blue and green flame colorants. Different colors of natural flame from a bunsen burner, without additives. Colored fire is a common pyrotechnic effect used in stage productions, fireworks and by fire performers the world over. Generally, the color of a flame may be red, orange, blue, yellow, or white, and ...
Dark Fire is the sixth book in the paranormal/romance series Dark Series by American author Christine Feehan. It is the second book in a trilogy written within the Dark Series, and it starts several months after the events in Dark Challenge .
Dark Fire (Feehan novel), a novel by Christine Feehan. Dark Fire (Sansom novel), a novel by C. J. Sansom. Dark Fire (The Last Dragon Chronicles), a novel by Chris D'Lacey. Dark Fire, a novel by Ann Maxwell. Dark Fire, a novel by Peggy Webb. Dark Fire, a novel by Robyn Donald. Dark Fires, a novel by Brenda Joyce.
The cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics with pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat Earth paradigm, along with the modern spherical Earth view of the Solar System . The created world, Eä, includes the planet Arda, corresponding to the Earth.