In The Sorcerer's Tale, Alec Ryrie uses previously unknown documents to reconstruct the extraordinary life and world of Gregory Wisdom, physician, magician, and consummate con-man at work in sixteenth-century London. The journey takes us through the cut-throat business of early modern medicine, down to Tudor London's gangland of fraud and organized crime; from the world of Renaissance magi and Kabbalistic conjurers to street-corner wizards; and into thechaotic, exhilarating religious upheavals of the Reformation.