A smart first edition/first Impression in Fine condition with cocked spine in alike dust-wrapper. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by author Rory Clements directly on the title page; In 1591 the quiet life of John Shakespeare is shattered by a summons from Robert Cecil, the cold but deadly young statesman who dominates the last years of Queen Elizabethd's reign, insisting Shakespeare re-enter government service. His mission: to find vital papers, now in the possession of the Earl of Essex; 8vo; [x], 436, [2] pages; Signed by Author.

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Title

Revenger -1st Edition/1st Impression

Publisher

John Murray, [London]

Publication Date

2010

Language

English

ISBN 10

1848540833

ISBN 13

9781848540835

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition; First Printing.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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1592. England and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. Conspiracies multiply. The quiet life of John Shakespeare is shattered by a summons from Robert Cecil, the cold but deadly young statesman who dominated the last years of the Queen's long reign, insisting Shakespeare re-enter government service. His mission: to find vital papers, now in the possession of the Earl of Essex. Essex is the brightest star in the firmament, a man of ambition. He woos the Queen, thirty-three years his senior, as if she were a girl his age. She is flattered by him -- despite her loathing for his mother, the beautiful, dangerous Lettice Knollys who presides over her own glittering court -- a dazzling array of the mad, bad, dangerous and disaffected. When John Shakespeare infiltrates this dissolute world he discovers not only that the Queen herself is in danger -- but that he and his family is also a target. With only his loyal footsoldier Boltfoot Cooper at his side, Shakespeare must face implacable forces who believe themselves above the law: men and women who kill without compunction. And in a world of shifting allegiances, just how far he can trust Robert Cecil, his devious new master?

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Rory Clements is the award-winning author of the John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers. His six acclaimed novels, Martyr, Revenger, Prince, Traitor, The Heretics and The Queen's Man, follow Elizabeth's Intelligencer, John Shakespeare, brother to the playwright William, through the dark underworld of Tudor England as he unmasks the traitors and conspirators who plot against the Queen. Rory Clements won the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award in 2010 for Revenger, and has been shortlisted for CWA Awards for Martyr, Prince and The Heretics. A TV series is currently in development. Find out more at www.roryclements.co.uk

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