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The Bear Pit - a twisting historical thriller from the award-winning author of The Seeker (Paperback)
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The Bear Pit - a twisting historical thriller from the award-winning author of The Seeker (Paperback)
Series: The Seeker
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List price R340
Loot Price R311
Discovery Miles 3 110
You Save R29 (9%)
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'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion' Sunday Times London, 1656:
Captain Seeker is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin
preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell's Republic The
Commonwealth is balanced on a knife edge. Royalists and
disillusioned former Parliamentarians have united against Oliver
Cromwell, now a king in all but name. Three conspirators,
representing these factions, plan to assassinate the Lord
Protector, paving the way back to the throne for Charles Stuart
once and for all. Captain Damian Seeker, meanwhile, is preoccupied
by the horrifying discovery in an illegal gambling den of the body
of a man ravaged by what is unmistakably a bear. Yet the bears used
for baiting were all shot when the sport was banned by Cromwell. So
where did this fearsome creature come from, and why would someone
use it for murder? With Royalist-turned-Commonwealth-spy Thomas
Faithly tracking the bear, Seeker investigates its victim. The
trail leads from Kent's coffee house on Cornhill, to a German
clockmaker in Clerkenwell, to the stews of Southwark, to the
desolate Lambeth Marshes where no one should venture at night. When
the two threads of the investigation begin to join, Seeker realises
just what - and who - he is up against. The Royalists in exile have
sent to London their finest mind and greatest fighter, a man who
will stop at nothing to ensure the Restoration. Has Seeker finally
met his match?
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