The rebel heart
Subtitle: Henry Gresham and the Earl of Essex
By: Martin Stephen
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780750528108
Subjects: Henry Gresham (Fictitious character); Fiction; Spy stories; Inheritance and succession; History
Description: From the acclaimed author of THE DESPERATE REMEDY ('A terrific book' The Spectator), comes the fourth novel in the series featuring gentleman spy Henry Gresham. 1598, and Elizabeth I is growing old. Her Court shivers with intrigue as to who will claim the throne when she dies - the Spanish, King James I of Scotland or the upstart Earl of Essex? One man who has inside knowledge of Court is the young Henry Gresham, together with his manservant Mannion and beautiful ward, Jane. Commanded by Robert Cecil to deliver a mysterious letter, and ever watchful of the Earl of Essex's increasingly erratic behaviour, he soon becomes swept up in a battle for power that takes him to all corners of the British Isles, and close to death ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Sphere, 2006.