The Queen’s Man : John Shakespeare – The Beginning by Clements, Rory

Author: Clements, Rory

Historical mysteries

Published on 20 November 2014 by Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the John Shakespeare’ series.

Paperback | 496 pages
130 x 198 x 31 | 390g

Includes BONUS short story*****Part of the bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers from Rory Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award*****'[Clements] does for Elizabeth’s reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII’s’ Sunday Times**********England is a Judas nest of conspiracyIt is 1582, and the conflict between Protestant and Catholic threatens to tear the country in two. While Queen Elizabeth I holds the reins of power, there are those whose loyalty lies with her imprisoned cousin, Mary Queen of Scots.

On his first major mission for Sir Francis Walsingham, the young John Shakespeare is ordered to discover a conspiracy to free the Stuart q