by Steve Asikin
Significant changes of 16th century politic, religion, technology, business and world's exploration, spreads 3 De Sotos, 3 De Lymas and 1 Da Gama wise family members (both Moslems and Catholics) to Lisbon, Nagasaki, Madrid, Goa, Zurich, Malacca, Istanbul. That makes the military intelligence men and women travelled inside many wars and political turbulences of Japan, Java, India, Ternate, Milan, Aceh and Britain. It is the first time ever European fleets can travel to Japan, right after the fall of Andalusia Caliph and the raise of Islam in Southeast Asia. They face many businesses, assassins, mystery, killings by unexpectedly different kind of weapons, technologies and espionage possibilities. Even later as Harvard University professors at 17th century, both ex Portuguese and Spanish admirals, still work with the Armada (fleet)s, participates in Britain's intelligence war of King Charles-I against Cromwell.
ISBN 978-602-95242-0-8 and ISBN 978-602-95490-0-3, Copyright ©2009 by Steve Asikin,ABOUT THE AUTHORWorld's 5 continents (40 countries) business and back-packer traveller, a professor and Summa Cum Laude Sc.D (doctor of science),with dissertation in Interactive Multi-constraints Mathematical Economic Models for Financial Optimization. This book has a very inspirational theme in all of its content, and very educational, based on real date and place of historical facts. In fact it is a more realistic horizontal history (many places in same era), rather than a common one (many ages in one place).(2010, paperback, 548 pages)