By Rory Clements
In his seriously acclaimed debut mystery, Martyr, Rory Clements brought readers to the unforgettable John Shakespeare, leader intelligencer to Queen Elizabeth I and older brother to Will.
Now, 5 years later, the Queen wishes Shakespeare’s providers once again. not just is England nonetheless at warfare with Spain, yet her courtroom is riven by way of savage infighting between bold younger courtiers.
Shakespeare is summoned by way of Elizabeth’s chilly yet lethal Privy Councillor Sir Robert Cecil and ordered to adopt associated missions: to enquire the secret of the doomed Roanoke colony in North America—Sir Walter Ralegh’s folly—and to secret agent on Cecil’s rival, the rushing Earl of Essex.
Essex is the brightest big name within the firmament, the Queen’s favourite. but if Shakespeare enters Essex’s dissolute international, he discovers not just that the Queen herself is at risk, yet that he and his relations also are objectives. With a scourge devastating the rustic, Catholics dealing with persecution and martyrdom by the hands of an notorious torturer, and John’s personal spouse, Catherine, in all likelihood conserving a priest—Shakespeare has his personal survival to safe, in addition to that of his fading yet nonetheless feisty Queen.
Filled with the flavour and evidence of a tumultuous time in English historical past, Revenger is a beautiful novel of savage rivalries and reprisals from an writer rapidly changing into a recognized grasp of old suspense.
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