#2 Christopher Marlowe Spy Thriller

The Queen's Jewel

Steven Veerapen
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London, 1587 In the wake of Mary Queen of Scots’s execution, England’s capital rejoices at Queen Elizabeth’s escape from assassination. But all is far from well. Cambridge scholar Thomas Lewgar tracks down his friend, the renegade playwright Cristopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe. Absenting himself yet again from University, Marlowe claims to be engaged on government business - seeking out Catholic plotters. He has in fact uncovered a new plot: a cabal of Catholics plan on using the Queen’s Jewel to support a Spanish invasion. But Lewgar is far from convinced. What is the Queen’s Jewel? And who is the strange young man being moved around England, and said by the Catholics to represent the second coming of Arthur? In a mission that takes them through playhouses and spies’ dens, to Queen Elizabeth’s court and through secretive country estates, they discover that some knowledge can be deadly… Pitted against rival spymasters - and forced to confront Queen Elizabeth’s darkest secrets - Marlowe and Lewgar must uncover the truth of the Queen’s Jewel before they are imperilled too.
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