A vivid and gripping historical thriller set in Elizabethan England introducing
Giordano Bruno, philosopher, scientist and spy for all fans of C.J.Sansom and Th
e Name of the Rose. In Elizabeth's England, true faith can mean bloody murder...
OXFORD, 1583. A PLACE OF LEARNING.
AND MURDEROUS SCHEMES. England is rife wit
h plots to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and return the country to the Catholic fa
ith. Defending the realm through his network of agents, the Queen's spymaster Si
r Francis Walsingham works tirelessly to hunt down all traitors.
His latest r
ecruit is Giordano Bruno, a radical thinker fleeing the Inquisition, who is sent
undercover to Oxford to expose a Catholic conspiracy. But he has his own secret
mission at the University - one that must remain hidden at all costs. When a se
ries of hideous murders ruptures close-knit college life, Bruno is compelled to
investigate.
And what he finds makes it brutally clear that the Tudor throne
itself is at stake...
