For fans of CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, Holy Spy features the Queen´s Intelligencer John Shakespeare in the latest of Rory Clements´s acclaimed and bestselling series of Tudor spy thrillers
In London´s smoky taverns, a conspiracy is brewing: a group of wealthy young Catholic dissidents plot to assassinate Elizabeth, free Mary Queen of Scots--and open England to Spanish invasion. But the conspirators have been infiltrated by Sir Francis Walsingham´s top intelligencer, John Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, however, is torn: the woman he loves stands accused of murder. In a desperate race against time he must save her from the noose and the realm from treachery. And then it dawns that both investigations are inextricably linked--by corruption very close to the seat of power...