By Rory Clements
From Rory Clements, this is the fourth in his acclaimed bestselling John Shakespeare Elizabethan secret series.
The Elizabethan military has a mystery weapon: an optical software so strong it provides England unassailable superiority at sea. Spain will cease at not anything to scouse borrow it and grab the 2 males who comprehend its secrets and techniques - its operative William Ivory, often called the “Queen's Eye,” and its inventor, the maverick magician Dr Dee.
With a moment Armada threatened, intelligencer John Shakespeare is shipped north to escort Dr Dee to safeguard. yet his venture is way from straightforward.
Dee's host, the Earl of Derby, cousin to Elizabeth, is demise in soreness, it sounds as if poisoned. Who wishes him lifeless and why? What lies in the back of the lynching of the recusant priest Father Matthew Lamb? And what precisely is the relationship among those occasions and the mysterious and lovely girl Eliska?
While Shakespeare makes an attempt to untangle a plot that issues to treachery on the very optimum reaches of presidency, he additionally faces critical accusations a long way towards domestic. With a lot at stake, needs to he choose from relations and his responsibility to Queen and country?
Moving from the Catholic heartlands of Lancashire to a vagabond camp within the center of britain, and from the deck of Admiral Frobisher's flagship off the Brittany coast to the key conferences of Elizabeth's closest affiliates, Traitor is award-winning author Rory Clements' such a lot fascinating and compelling novel so far.
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Soon afterward came an episode in Bastogne, showing again what kind of battle this was going to be. They carted off not merely the staff and the supplies, but all the wounded men. IV Monuments resumed work on interrogation; it was the way they could be most useful, setting free the military men for more urgent duties. Lanny’s interest was the keener because his own life was at stake. Many whom he didn’t know would know him, for he had been a conspicuous figure wherever he went in Naziland, the American whom the Führer trusted.
They talked fast, and it was evident that they knew their business down to the last detail; they had spent two years learning it and half a year acting what they had learned. With quiet competence they laid out the procedure. Another commando would be a second or two behind, prepared to help. All that presupposed darkness, of which there was an unlimited quantity outside. ” asked Lanny. ” exclaimed the lieutenant, pleased but uncertain. “Most of the officers will be in the farmhouse, eating supper and resting.
He had destroyed all his papers and could give a false name and might get by with it. But he had traveled all over Germany, ever since boyhood, and had known literally thousands of Germans, especially of the officer class and among the Nazis of the ruling group. Wasn’t it certain that they would apply all the fancy kinds of scientific torture they had devised to make him reveal the names of his accomplices? So why not die quickly and take a few highly trained enemy troops along with him? If only he had had one of those tiny cyanide capsules with which the OSS provided its agents when going into enemy territory!