Book description
Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by
devious means, has managed to seize control of the English duchy of
Aquitaine in France, and is now determined to crush Edward. King Edward
suspects that his enemy is being aided by a spy in the English court and
commissions his chancery clerk, Hugh Corbett, to trace and, if possible,
destroy the traitor. Corbett's mission brings him into danger on both
land and at sea, and takes him to Paris, and its dangerous underworld,
and then to hostile Wales. Unwillingly he is drawn into the murky
undercurrents of international politics in the last decade of the
thirteenth century. And the spy will stop at nothing, not even murder,
to keep his identity secret. The third novel in Paul Doherty's Hugh
Corbett series. Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough. He studied
History at Liverpool and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate
for his thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. He is now headmaster of
a school in north-east London and lives with his family in Essex.
