The Queen’s Gold

by Steven Veerapen Book 1 in the Christopher Marlowe Spy Thriller series.

First published 2021

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England, 1585. After the wreck of the Sparrowhawk, rumours of lost treasure connected with Francis Drake draw the young Christopher Marlowe and fictional agent Thomas Lewgar into a contest involving merchants, courtiers and secret intelligence. What begins as a hunt for gold becomes a mission in which the expanding conflict with Spain is never far away.

Marlowe, Drake, Walter Raleigh, John Dee and Francis Walsingham are historical figures, while Lewgar and the central treasure-and-murder plot are fictional. Veerapen uses the real world of Elizabethan privateering and intelligence to imagine Marlowe before his later literary fame. This is the first Christopher Marlowe spy thriller.