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Marbeck and the Gunpowder Plot
First published 2015
England, 1605. Religious division remains acute under James I, and government spy Martin Marbeck is ordered to watch the Catholic gentleman Thomas Percy. The assignment becomes urgent when intelligence suggests that a spectacular attack may be directed against the king and Parliament, yet Marbeck has little firm evidence and struggles to persuade his superiors of the scale of the threat.
His surveillance draws him into the conspiracy later known as the Gunpowder Plot. With only days to identify the participants and understand their plan, Marbeck must work through secrecy, misinformation and divided loyalties while his own personal affairs complicate the investigation. The fourth novel places its fictional intelligence officer inside one of the defining political crises of the early Stuart monarchy.
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