Castle of Kings, The - Softcover

Combine Princess Bride with Germanic history circa 1500, add a dash of Lord of the Rings, and there's a week of good fun . . ." -- "Kirkus Reviews""

Mr. Potzsch is the author of a sequence of five novels, collectively known as The Hangman s Daughter, which have sold half a million copies in English translation. The Castle of Kings is likely to enjoy similar success and deserves it . . . The war scenes are grimly realistic, and the narration gripping . . . The author makes the fantastical elements work by harnessing them to the grim reality of the Peasants War, setting his far-fetched romance in an utterly convincing world of economic hardship, social strife and religious and political uncertainty. Oliver Potzsch recognizes that the way to make the extraordinary credible is to anchor it in a thoroughly imagined depiction of real historical times. -- The Wall Street Journal

Combine Princess Bride with Germanic history circa 1500, add a dash of Lord of the Rings, and there's a week of good fun . . ." -- Kirkus Reviews

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"Mr. Potzsch is the author of a sequence of five novels, collectively known as 'The Hangman's Daughter, ' which have sold half a million copies in English translation. 'The Castle of Kings' is likely to enjoy similar success--and deserves it . . . The war scenes are grimly realistic, and the narration gripping . . . The author makes the fantastical elements work by harnessing them to the grim reality of the Peasants' War, setting his far-fetched romance in an utterly convincing world of economic hardship, social strife and religious and political uncertainty. Oliver Potzsch recognizes that the way to make the extraordinary credible is to anchor it in a thoroughly imagined depiction of real historical times." -- The Wall Street Journal

"Combine Princess Bride with Germanic history circa 1500, add a dash of Lord of the Rings, and there's a week of good fun . . ." -- Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Oliver Potzsch

I loved every page, character, and plot twist of The Hangman s Daughter, an inventive historical novel about a seventeenth-century hangman s quest to save a witch from himself. Scott Turow

Swift and sure, compelling as any conspiracy theory, persuasive as any spasm of paranoia, The Dark Monk grips you at the base of your skull and doesn t let go. Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Out of Oz

Oliver Potzsch has brought to life the heady smells and tastes, the true reality of an era we ve never seen quite like this before. The hangman Jakob and his feisty daughter Magdalena are characters we will want to root for in many books to come. Katherine Neville, best-selling author of The Eight and The Magic Circle

In this subtle, meticulously crafted story, every word is a possible clue, and the characters are so engaging that it s impossible not to get involved in trying to help them figure the riddle out. Oprah.com

Oliver Potzsch has hatched a narrative redolent of Alfred Hitchcock s best romantic thrillers, replete with mindboggling ciphers, distinctive villains, secret societies (exotic yet historically accurate), and other pleasures both sensual and cerebral. James Morrow, author of The Last Witchfinder
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