Her Majesty's Spymaster
Subtitle: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Viking
Published: August 22, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780670034260
Subjects: Espionage, British; I,; Great Britain; World - General; Elizabeth; International Relations - General; Queen of England,; Foreign Relations; Monarchy And Aristocracy; History; Walsingham, Francis,; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; Espionage; Historical - British; History / Military / General; Relations with cabinet officers; 16th century; History - General History; 1530?-1590; 1533-1603; Biography; Cabinet officers; Sir,
First sentence: Afterward, when the Seine flowed with corpses and thousands were dead, there were some who said that if only the assassin had not bungled his job in the first place all of the subsequent trouble might have been avoided.