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Martyr - John Shakespeare 1 (Paperback)
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Martyr - John Shakespeare 1 (Paperback)
Series: John Shakespeare
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List price R321
Loot Price R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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*****Part of the bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy
thrillers from Rory Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical
Fiction Award***** 'Does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does
for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times England is close to war. Within days
the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots, and Spain is
already gathering a battle fleet to avenge her. Tensions in
Elizabeth I's government are at breaking point. At the eye of the
storm is John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in the secret
service of Sir Francis Walsingham. When an intercept reveals a plot
to assassinate England's 'sea dragon', Francis Drake, Shakespeare
is ordered to protect him. With Drake on land fitting out his
ships, he is frighteningly vulnerable. If he dies, England will be
open to invasion. In a London rife with rumour, Shakespeare must
decide which leads to follow, which to ignore. When a high-born
young woman is found mutilated and murdered at an illicit printing
house, it is political gunpowder - and he has no option but to
investigate. But why is Shakespeare shadowed at every turn by the
brutal Richard Topcliffe, the blood-drenched priest-hunter who
claims intimacy with Queen Elizabeth herself? What is Topcliffe's
interest in a housemaid, whose baby has been stolen? And where do
two fugitive Jesuit priests fit into the puzzle, one happy to die
for God, the other to kill for Him? From the splendour and intrigue
of the royal court, to the sleek warships of Her Majesty's Navy and
the teeming brothels of Southwark, Shakespeare soon learns that
nothing is as it seems . . .
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