"A slow-burn character driven spy story that grips like a thumbscrew tightened by twist after twist towards the end - Le Carre transported to the 1560's. Brilliant work, based in impressively wide research and the kind of competition that I and a good number of others could well do without " Peter Tonkin, author of A Stage For Murder Rebellion stirs in Elizabeth's England. In the bleak midlands, Mary Queen of Scots has begun a...