Book description
Autumn 1379, and the kingdom is seething with discontent as John of
Gaunt is invested with the power of the crown. The French attack the
southern ports and economic hardship reigns in the countryside, where
the mysterious leader of the Great community of the Realm, who proclaims
himself 'IRA DEI', the anger of God, is organising a revolt. Gaunt's
plans to win over the great merchant princes of the capital are thrown
into chaos by a series of bloody murders. In desperation, he turns to
Sir John Cranston, Coroner of the City, and his clerk, Brother
Athelstan, to bring the assassin to book and recover a king's ransom in
gold which has mysteriously disappeared. As they investigate, Cranston
and Athelstan are forced to navigate the seedy underworld of London as
they try to bring a subtle murderer to justice... The fourth book in the
Brother Athelstan series.
