書籍詳情
格式
平裝書
頁數
472
語言
英語
已出版
Oct 1, 2015
出版商
Sphere
ISBN-10
075155281X
ISBN-13
9780751552812
描述
London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is plague in the stews of St Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to invade, and a banking crisis threatens to leave Charles II's government with no means of paying for the nation's defence.
Amid the tension, Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate the murder of Dick Wheler, one of the few goldsmith-bankers to have survived the losses that have driven others to bankruptcy - or worse. At the same time, a French spy staggers across the city, carrying the plague from one parish to another, and the body count from the disease and from the fever of avarice starts to rise alarmingly ..
Amid the tension, Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate the murder of Dick Wheler, one of the few goldsmith-bankers to have survived the losses that have driven others to bankruptcy - or worse. At the same time, a French spy staggers across the city, carrying the plague from one parish to another, and the body count from the disease and from the fever of avarice starts to rise alarmingly ..