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In this ingenious debut, Rory Clements introduces John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England?s most remarkable investigator, and delivers a tale of murder and conspiracy that succeeds brilliantly as both historical fiction and a crime thriller.
John Shakespeare #1
Bantam
May 2009
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Featuring: John Shakespeare; Elizabeth I
400 pages ISBN: 0385342829 EAN: 9780385342827 Kindle: B00296SVHW Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Thriller
In a burnt-out house, one of Queen Elizabeth’s aristocratic
cousins is found murdered, her flesh marked with profane
symbols. At the same time a plot is discovered to
assassinate England’s feared sea warrior Sir Francis Drake –
a plot which, if successful, could leave the country open to
Spanish invasion. The year is 1587. One man is charged with the desperate task
of solving both cases: John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer
in Sir Francis Walsingam’s spy network. With the Spanish
Armada poised to strike, Mary Queen of Scots awaiting
execution and the pikes above London Bridge decorated with
the severed heads of traitors, the country is in peril of
being overwhelmed by fear, chaos and religious strife. Following a trail of illicit passions and family secrets,
Shakespeare travels through a teeming underworld of enemy
agents, sorcerers, whores and poets, among whom is his own
younger brother, the struggling playmaker Will. Gradually unravelling a complex conspiracy of international
intrigue – and shadowed at every turn by his deadly rival,
the Queen’s brutal torturer Richard Topcliffe – John
Shakespeare soon realises his own family and the beautiful
woman he desires are in grave danger of becoming the next
martyrs to a passion for murder.
John Shakespeare
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