num_pages: 580
description: A Gambling Man is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years - and a portrait of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world, in which the risks the king took forged the fate of the nation, on the brink of the modern world.
language: English
title: A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
publisher: Faber and Fabr