The Tudor secret
By: Christopher Gortner
Series: Elizabeth's spymaster -- 1
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781444720822; 9781444721027; 9781444720839; 9781444720846
Subjects: Fiction; Missing persons; Orphans; Spies; History
Description: Summer 1553: A time of danger and deceit. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, is reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, he finds himself sent on an illicit mission to the King s brilliant but enigmatic sister, Princess Elizabeth.
Table of contents: title: Filled with the intrigue and pageantry of Tudor England in 1553, this is the story of orphan Brendan Prescott who is sent on an illicit mission to the King's sister, Princess Elizabeth. But he is soon compelled to work as a double agent by her protector, William Cecil; title: who promises in exchange, to help him unravel the secret of his own past.