Book description
1593. Queen Elizabeth's trusted spymaster Walsingham has been dead
for two years...
As plague sweeps through the streets and stews of London, so
suspicion and mistrust sweep through the court and government. No one
feels safe. Even the celebrated swordsman, adventurer and philanderer,
Will Swyfte, must watch his back.
It is when his best friend and colleague, the playwright Christopher
Marlowe, is killed in a pub brawl that Will decides he must act. The
murder has all the hallmarks of an assassination. But in going in
search of Kit's killer, he discovers that there are those in positions
of power and influence who are not what they seem...
Against a backcloth of growing paranoia and terror, Will detects the
malign machinations of England's hidden enemy, the Unseelie Court.
With these devils at his back, the country's greatest spy may find
that even his vaunted skills are no match for the supernatural powers
arrayed against him. The choice is simple: uncover the true nature and
intention of this vile conspiracy - or face the executioner's axe...
A two-time winner of the British Fantasy Award,
Mark Chadbourn
was raised in the mining communities of South Derbyshire, and studied
at Leeds University before becoming a journalist. Now a screenwriter for
BBC TV drama, he has also run an independent record company, managed
rock bands, worked on a production line and as an engineer's 'mate'.
Mark Chadbourn lives in a forest in the Midlands. To find out more about
him and his writing, visit
www. markchadbourn. net
