The King's Assassin
The King's Assassin
by Robert Burdette Sweet
What the reviewers are saying:
Robert Burdette Sweet displays stunning imaginative powers in recreating
17th century
Indian history. Set in the oppressive pre-monsoon heat, The King's
Assassin sizzles with
repressed sexuality that resonates with relevance for our own times.
– James Brogan, author of A Time to Live and professor of gay
studies
at San Francisco State University.
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Sweet is a writer who uses irony to create literary images with the deft
skill of a cloisonné
artist. Civilization, truth, history and love are examined under the diamond
brightness of
an Indian sun.
– Ralph Higgins, Waves Magazine.
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In Sweet's The King's Assassin one can feel, taste, smell and
hear, and see the enigma of India.
– The Peninsula Times Tribune.
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The author of The King's Assassin has done his historical homework,
and done it well. Between
the world of reality and that of myth, he has sewn very fine sutures that
merge without the reader's
conscious realization. One enters the world of make-believe where truth and
fiction become
complements, not contrasts, and the reader becomes absorbed in this game
of opposites.
– Singapore Book World.
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Sweet's writing, his lean and hungry craft, has always been brave and coldly
honest, but in
The King's Assassin he goes for the most dangerous game of
all: truth absolute.
It's a novel I can't forget.
– Gary Elder, San Marcos Press.
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