Assassination

by Steven Veerapen Book 3 in the Spycatcher series.

First published 2020

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Summer 1606. England is still living with the political consequences of the Gunpowder Plot when Christian IV of Denmark visits his brother-in-law James I. Ned Savage is summoned by Robert Cecil and Francis Bacon to investigate a threat that appears to place a king in danger during the elaborate entertainments surrounding the royal visit.

James, Christian IV, Cecil, Bacon and Walter Raleigh belong to the historical Jacobean world, while the assassin and Ned’s investigation are fictional. The novel uses the atmosphere of intensified security after Gunpowder and the culture of court performance, including Macbeth at Hampton Court, to conclude the Spycatcher trilogy.