The Bear Pit : a twisting historical thriller from the award-winning author of The Seeker by MacLean, S.G.

Author: MacLean, S.G.

London, Greater London

Published on 6 February 2020 by Quercus Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of ‘The Seeker’ series.

Paperback | 416 pages
129 x 197 x 27 | 300g

‘Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion’ Sunday TimesLondon, 1656: Captain Seeker is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell’s RepublicThe Commonwealth is balanced on a knife edge. Royalists and disillusioned former Parliamentarians have united against Oliver Cromwell, now a king in all but name. Three conspirators, representing these factions, plan to assassinate the Lord Protector, paving the way back to the throne for Charles Stuart once and for all.

Captain Damian Seeker, meanwhile, is preoccupied by the horrifying discovery in an illegal gambling den of the body of a man ravaged by what is unmistakably a bear. Yet the bears used for baiting w