![]() It falls to Geoffrey Belloc, a secret warrior from the hottest days of Englandâ?s religious battles, to devise a test to discover the true nature of King Jamesâ?s soul. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe? He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his familyâ?s Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. ![]() The queenâ?s spymastersâ?hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremismâ?fear that James is not what he appears. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE WASHINGTON POST Â?Evokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carré and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.â?â? The Wall Street Journal HTML: Queen Elizabethâ?s spymasters recruit an unlikely agentâ?the only Muslim in Englandâ?for an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from â?one of the best writers in Americaâ? ( The Washington Post) ![]()
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