The brother of fire
By: Christian Jacq
Series: The Mozart series
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Le Frère du Feu
ISBN-13: 9781416526636
Subjects: Fiction; Freemasonry; History
Other titles: Count of Thebes series.
Work titles: Frère du feu
Description: Thamos, Count of Thebes, one of the last members of a spiritual brotherhood keeping alive the secrets of the pharaohs, has been assigned the mission to find and protect the 'Great Magician', a genius whose works will save humanity. Believing that he has found the One in popular young musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he succeeds in initiating him in the Masonic rites inspired by the Egyptian Great Mysteries. Now Mozart has thrown himself into the rituals, in which he finds inspiration for two new operas Figaro and Don Giovanni. In love and the father of a young son, Mozart's career is advancing nicely, the commissions keep flowing in and famous singers knock on his door until new menaces cast a shadow over his future. Menace from the powers-that-be, who fear the influence of the Masonic Lodges and put them under police surveillance; Menace too from jealous musicians such as Salieri, who makes an attempt to sabotage Mozart's concerts. Mozart resists and fights back, but will he manage to survive when the greater threat of war with the Ottoman Empire draws near?
Notes: This translation originally published: 2011.

1st v. in the series originally published with the series title The Count of Thebes series.

Translated from the French.