The Folly of the World

On a stormy night in 1421, the North Sea delivers a devastating blow to Holland: the Saint Elizabeth Flood, a deluge of biblical proportions that drowns hundreds of towns, thousands of people, and forever alters the geography of the Low Countries. Where the factions of the noble Hooks and the merchant Cods waged a literal class war but weeks before, there is now only a nigh-endless expanse of grey water, a desolate inland sea with moldering church spires jutting up like sunken tombstones. For a land already beleaguered by generations of civil war, a worse disaster could scarce be imagined.

Yet even disaster can be profitable, for the right sort of individual, and into this flooded realm sail three conspirators: a deranged thug at the edge of madness, a ruthless conman on the cusp of fortune, and a half-feral girl balanced between them.

With The Folly of the World, Jesse Bullington has woven an extraordinary new tale of the depraved and the desperate.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 12/18/2012
ISBN: 9780316190350
Pages: 518
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.52w x 1.37d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/08/2012
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2012
Romantic Times 12/01/2012 pg. 58 - Excellent
Shelf Awareness 12/21/2012