Another excellent historical adventure from Susanna Gregory
featuring 17th-century spy Thomas Chaloner ------------------------
London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is
plague in the stews of St Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to
invade, and a banking crisis threatens to leave Charles II's
government with no means of paying for the nation's defence. Amid
the tension, Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate the murder
of Dick Wheler, one of the few goldsmith-bankers to have survived
the losses that have driven others to bankruptcy - or worse. At the
same time, a French spy staggers across the city, carrying the
plague from one parish to another. Chaloner's foray into the world
of the financiers who live in and around Cheapside quickly
convinces him that they are just as great a threat as the Dutch,
but their power and greed thwart him at every turn. Meanwhile, the
plague continues to spread across the city, and the body count from
the disease and from the fever of avarice starts to rise alarmingly
. . .
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