All the Queen's Spies: A Novel (An Agents of the Crown Novel) - Softcover

Clements, Oliver

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1668022141 ISBN 13: 9781668022146

Publisher: Atria/Leopoldo & Co., 2024

Synopsis

Queen Elizabeth I’s advisor John Dee is in a race to save the Empire with the help of a mysterious manuscript offering global power in this continuation of the “lively” (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series.

With rumors of the end times swirling, philosopher and astronomer John Dee travels to Prague in an effort to prevent one of Catherine de Medici’s seductive ladies-in-waiting from luring the Holy Roman Emperor into a crusade against England.

To convince the famously occult-loving Emperor to join his side, Dee entices him with the esoteric Book of Secrets, a volume that, if decoded, could provide the chance to control the levers of heaven and earth. But Dee faces enemies at every turn, including a female codebreaker who could be the undoing of Dee and England itself.

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About the Author

Oliver Clements is a novelist and screenwriter based in Mortlake, London.

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Chapter One CHAPTER ONE
North Sea, last week of September 1583

When John Dee thinks about it later, when he is crouched covered in blood in the stern of a fluyt and watching the coast of Kent disappear forever into the sea mist, he wonders again why he had ever supposed, even for a solitary instant, that this could or would have ever ended otherwise.

Had the heavens not sent a sign? Had the skies over Mortlake that night not turned blood red? Had the clouds not burned bright with an unearthly glow, as if they were set aflame?

They had, hadn’t they?

And yet.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atria/Leopoldo & Co.
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1668022141
• ISBN 13: 9781668022146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400