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THE QUEEN'S MEN
This is the next installment of Oliver Clements' riveting Agents of the Crown series, featuring John Dee, the original inspiration for the famous 007, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Ken Follett.
Masked gunmen ambush Queen Elizabeth as she travels through Waltham forest, peppering her carriage with ball holes before disappearing like wraiths in the night. In the tense hours that follow, while no one knows whether she will live or die. Some argue for acceptance of the new Queen: Mary of Scotland, while others - John Dee - argue the fight must go on.
When she survives, Francis Walsingham - responsible for her safety - must explain how such a plot could so nearly succeed: who are the gunmen? How did they know she was coming on that road, that night, and in which carriage she would be travelling? And more importantly, where are they now?
Robert Beale, Walsingham's deputy, shaken by the thought of Mary of Scotland inheriting the throne and returning England to Catholicism, stumbles on a solution but his scheme is fraught with risk, and should it be uncovered, he will be hung, drawn and quartered as a traitor.
In her fever, her Majesty dreams of fire, and on waking, comes to believe the only way to protect her country is with Greek Fire, the secret of which died with the Byzantines, but which she commissions her disappointed alchemist and scholar John Dee to rediscover.
But their enemy is cunning, and fate fickle. Beale's plot is uncovered, and the Greek Fire stolen, and the Queen's would-be assassins evade capture, only to reappear, bent on inflicting a grisly death on Her Majesty.
Only one man can stop them. John Dee.
Oliver Clements is a novelist and screenwriter based in Mortlake, London.
When she survives, Francis Walsingham - responsible for her safety - must explain how such a plot could so nearly succeed: who are the gunmen? How did they know she was coming on that road, that night, and in which carriage she would be travelling? And more importantly, where are they now?
Robert Beale, Walsingham's deputy, shaken by the thought of Mary of Scotland inheriting the throne and returning England to Catholicism, stumbles on a solution but his scheme is fraught with risk, and should it be uncovered, he will be hung, drawn and quartered as a traitor.
In her fever, her Majesty dreams of fire, and on waking, comes to believe the only way to protect her country is with Greek Fire, the secret of which died with the Byzantines, but which she commissions her disappointed alchemist and scholar John Dee to rediscover.
But their enemy is cunning, and fate fickle. Beale's plot is uncovered, and the Greek Fire stolen, and the Queen's would-be assassins evade capture, only to reappear, bent on inflicting a grisly death on Her Majesty.
Only one man can stop them. John Dee.
Oliver Clements is a novelist and screenwriter based in Mortlake, London.
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Published 2021-12-07 by Atria / Leopoldo |