Agents of the Crown #02: The Queen's Men

Agents of the Crown #02: The Queen's Men
Oliver Clements
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NZ$ 45.00
Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 416pg
7 Dec 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781501154751
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The Agents of the Crown-the "rollicking new historical thriller" (The New York Times Book Review) series-returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is assigned a dangerous mission to recreate a weapon from antiquity. As she travels through Waltham Forest, Queen Elizabeth I is ambushed by masked gunmen who leave her carriage riddled with holes before disappearing into the night. The Queen' s Private Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, is tasked with finding the perpetrators, about whom they know precious little. But someone alerted the gunman to the route of the Queen' s carriage, and Walsingham knows that the assassins will not stop until she' s dead. While Queen Elizabeth' s Privy Council debates how to best secure the throne in the wake of the attack and Catholic Spain' s further intrusion into the Low Countries, the queen herself searches for the ultimate weapon to protect her country and throne: Greek fire, the recipe of which disappeared with the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. She orders her friend John Dee-scientist, philosopher, and spy-to rediscover this vital secret, despite his misgivings. For he understands that in a world fraught with coded messages, ruthless adversaries, and deadly plot, his mission to secure his nation' s future may prove impossible, unless he deploys the most effective weapon of all: intelligence. With his "twisty, fast-paced" (Publishers Weekly) prose, Oliver Clements weaves another white-knuckled and intelligent historical thriller set in the Age of the Enlightenment with parallels in the present day.
"[M]ade-for-movie-theater tension and delicious, snickering-from-the-back-row wit. " -New York Times Book Review "[T]wisty, fast-paced. " -Publishers Weekly
Oliver Clements is a novelist and screenwriter based in Mortlake, London.

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