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CORPUS
Corpus is the first book in a major new series of 1930s spy thrillers featuring Wilde, a maverick intellectual with a taste for fist-fighting.
THE TOM WILDE SERIES
Cambridge in the 1930s - cradle of spies, crucible of genius.
The town that spawned Burgess, Maclean, Philby and Blunt. The town that split the atom.
This is the town where Tom Wilde, Professor of History, doesn't quite fit in. He is an American with Irish blood and a disdain for the British class system. He is also a renowned writer on the spy network of the Elizabethan statesman Sir Francis Walsingham.
But his expertise on espionage and murder is not confined to the 16th century. With the world exploding in war, tyranny, and sexual scandal, he and Lydia Morris, the woman he loves, become trapped in web upon web of conspiracy, always with Cambridge at the very heart.
CORPUS, 1936. Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the rhineland; in Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror; Spain has erupted in civil war.
In Berlin a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks, she is found dead in her Cambridge bedroom, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.
When a renowned member of the county set and his wife are found horribly murdered, a maverick history professor finds himself dragged into a world of espionage which, until now, he has only read about in books. But the deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he wonders whether the murders are linked to the death of the girl with the silver syringe - and, just as worryingly, to the scandal surrounding King Edward VIII and his mistress Wallis Simpson ...
Professor Wilde´s specialist subject is the Elizebethan secret service. As the scope of the conspiracy is revealed, he must use all the skills he has learnt to save the woman he loves and prevent a massacre.
RORY CLEMENTS was born on the edge of England in Dover. He was an associate editor at Today newspaper, followed by stints as Health Editor at the Daily Mail and Evening Standard.
Since 2007, Rory has been writing full-time in a quiet corner of Norfolk, England, where he lives with his family. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2010 for his second novel Revenger and three of his other novels - Martyr, Prince and The Heretics - have all been shortlisted for awards. A TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development by Mammoth Screen (producers of Poldark and Endeavour).
Find out more at RoryClements.co.uk
Cambridge in the 1930s - cradle of spies, crucible of genius.
The town that spawned Burgess, Maclean, Philby and Blunt. The town that split the atom.
This is the town where Tom Wilde, Professor of History, doesn't quite fit in. He is an American with Irish blood and a disdain for the British class system. He is also a renowned writer on the spy network of the Elizabethan statesman Sir Francis Walsingham.
But his expertise on espionage and murder is not confined to the 16th century. With the world exploding in war, tyranny, and sexual scandal, he and Lydia Morris, the woman he loves, become trapped in web upon web of conspiracy, always with Cambridge at the very heart.
CORPUS, 1936. Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the rhineland; in Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror; Spain has erupted in civil war.
In Berlin a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks, she is found dead in her Cambridge bedroom, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.
When a renowned member of the county set and his wife are found horribly murdered, a maverick history professor finds himself dragged into a world of espionage which, until now, he has only read about in books. But the deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he wonders whether the murders are linked to the death of the girl with the silver syringe - and, just as worryingly, to the scandal surrounding King Edward VIII and his mistress Wallis Simpson ...
Professor Wilde´s specialist subject is the Elizebethan secret service. As the scope of the conspiracy is revealed, he must use all the skills he has learnt to save the woman he loves and prevent a massacre.
RORY CLEMENTS was born on the edge of England in Dover. He was an associate editor at Today newspaper, followed by stints as Health Editor at the Daily Mail and Evening Standard.
Since 2007, Rory has been writing full-time in a quiet corner of Norfolk, England, where he lives with his family. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2010 for his second novel Revenger and three of his other novels - Martyr, Prince and The Heretics - have all been shortlisted for awards. A TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development by Mammoth Screen (producers of Poldark and Endeavour).
Find out more at RoryClements.co.uk
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