ASIN: B00MR6BU6S
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 271
London, August 1598. Queen Elizabeth’s great adviser Lord Burghley is dead and his son Robert Cecil is fighting for survival among the wolves of the Privy Council.Queen’s Intelligencer William Maddox knows there is a mole at the heart of the tiny secret service run by Cecil. Maddox must hunt down the traitor to find the men who abducted his brother. His search takes him through a warren of murderous dockside taverns and spy-ridden country estates to the heart of Elizabeth’s government itself.But while the Intelligencers chase shadows, a cabal of religious zealots is plotting an attack on Elizabeth’s fragile regime. The English army suffers an inexplicable disaster in Ireland and as the stakes rise terrifyingly high, Maddox realises the traitor now threatens more than just his brother’s life.For buried ten years deep in the courts of Europe lies a secret that could destroy England - the ...
