The English Civil War has begun. Rumours about the activities of the Queen who is money raising in Holland are spreading. What is the small cabal around her, led by the vicious Harry Morton, really planning? Fox, searching for his daughter, finds himself working yet again for Black Tom Fairfax and Thurloe the Parliamentarian master spy. This is the world of double cross and danger, the world Fox and Maeve Ahearn know so well. But what is it Thurloe...