Quicksilver: Volume One of The Baroque Cycle Audiobook (Free)

Quicksilver is the tale of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing understanding together with the greatest thoughts of Baroque-era European countries, within a chaotic world where reason wars using the bloody ambitions from the mighty, and where catastrophe, organic or otherwise, can transform the political panorama overnight.

It really is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of ‘Half-Cocked Jack’ Shaftoe — London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King from the approximately Quicksilver: Volume One of The Baroque Routine Vagabonds — risking life and limb for lot of money and love even though slowly maddening from the pox.

And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to be spy, confidante, and pawn of royals to be able to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance.

A gloriously rich, engaging, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver can be an outstanding achievement from one of the most original and essential literary skills of our period.

And it’s just the beginning …

Performed by Simon Prebble and Stina Nielsen