O INFINITE SMILE
or, 
THE ACOLYTE'S TALE 

A ROMANCE OF NOVA EUROPA
and
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM 

by Robert Reginald 

     It is the year of Our Lord 1350, or 990 by the Julian reckoning.  Across the Teutonmark in Northwestern Europe a great war is underway between East and West, a struggle to the death between the Byzantine Julian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.  One side champions the use of magic to further its cause, while the other decries such devices, such outils, as the implements of the devil.  Good men on both sides of the issue continue to maim and kill each other through siege after siege, as the grim conflict continues, seemingly without end. 

     But how did things come to such a pass?  Through the eyes of Master Thaddæus, the leader of one of these armies, we relive his youth as an acolyte of Friar William of Ockham, the great philosopher-detective, whose struggle to overcome the forces of darkness ultimately pits him against the hereditary papacy of the Holy Roman Cæsars, and unleashes the great forces that eventually lead to war, pestilence, and destruction. 

     Here's a fourth helping of Nova Europa, as astonishing and delightful and original as the first three novels in the series. 

ca. 500 pages
Trade Paperback

¨ISBN 1-57241-131-7¨

¨FORTHCOMING FALL 2007¨ 

Ariadne Press
270 Goins Court
Riverside, CA 92507

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