”In Greek mythology, the god of love once offered a rose to the god of silence, as a bribe, to keep that god from disclosing the weaknesses of the other gods. In time, the rose became the symbol for silence and secrecy. In the Middle ages, a rose was customarily suspended from the ceiling of a co...
The Fraternity of the Stone is thriller writer David Morrell's second book in his Mortalis espionage trilogy which began with The Brotherhood of the Rose and ended with The League of Night and Fog. In Fraternity, Morrell explores a theme he touched on in Brotherhood - a professional assassin who ...
This is, in fact, book three in a series, but you can read it as a stand-alone book as well. You might not feel as much for the characters if you have not read the other two though. I've read this book before, way back, and then I had read both the other books before, this time I had only seen th...