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Historical person
1573–1605
Robert Catesby was the principal organiser of the Gunpowder Plot. Frustrated by the failure of relief for English Catholics, he recruited conspirators for an attempt to destroy Parliament and was killed after the plot was exposed.
In Peter Tonkin’s Shadow of Treason, an explosion at a gunpowder mill brings Robert Poley face to face with the fugitive Catholic Robert Catesby.
Series
The Queen’s Intelligencer series fictionalises the career of Robert Poley, a real Elizabethan agent associated with the Babington Plot and the death of Christopher Marlowe. In publication order, Poley infiltrates the Essex circle, manages the 1603 succession, follows the Gunpowder conspirators, works against a poison network during the…
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