Rory Clements escribe ahora a tiempo completo, tras haber disfrutado de una larga y exitosa carrera en periódicos. Sus novelas son conocidas por sus ambientaciones históricas y sus apasionantes tramas que transportan a los lectores a épocas pasadas. Clements evoca magistralmente la atmósfera de la época y crea personajes que resultan vívidos y creíbles. Sus obras exploran las intrincadas relaciones entre el poder, la intriga y el destino personal.
Set in the Tudor era, this thrilling installment follows John Shakespeare, the Queen's Intelligencer, as he navigates a web of espionage and intrigue. With a blend of historical detail and suspenseful storytelling, the narrative promises to captivate fans of CJ Sansom and SJ Parris. As Shakespeare uncovers secrets and faces danger, the stakes are high in a world where loyalty is uncertain and betrayal lurks around every corner.
Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Into this turmoil a small cart clatters through the streets of London, carrying a deadly load. It is the first in a wave of horrific bombing attacks on the Dutch immigrant community that will change John Shakespeare's life for ever.
In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death... On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland. Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war. As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie?
This big canvas international thriller marks the beginning of a major new series from bestselling, award-winning author Rory Clements.
Sweden, 1942 - Two old friends meet. The other is Prince Philipp von Hesse, a committed Nazi and close friend of Adolf Hitler. Days later, the Prince George is killed in a plane crash in the north of Scotland.
With WWII on a knife-edge, the most devestating weapon against the Nazis may not be a weapon at all...In Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clement's most intelligent, thrilling novel to date, only the truth can turn the tide of war.
Day by day, American and British intelligence officers subject senior members of the Nazi regime to gruelling interrogation in their quest for their truth. Enter Tom Wilde - the Cambridge professor and spy sent in to find out the truth...
The Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, in Germany Jewish persecution is widespread and, closer to home, the IRA has embarked on a bombing campaign.Perhaps, most worryingly of all, in Germany Otto Hahn has produced man-made fission and an atomic device is now possible.
For fans of CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, REVENGER is the second in Rory Clements' acclaimed and bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers. Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, 'does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times
A gripping spy thriller for fans of Robert Harris and William Boyd from award-winning author Rory Clements.
