The Queen's Cipher (eBook, ePUB)
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IN THE SHADOW OF THE THRONE, EVERY WORD IS A WEAPON.In 1571, England was a powder keg. Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by plotters at home and the great Catholic powers abroad. To defend the realm, her spymasters have built a new kind of arsenal: a network of spies armed not with daggers, but with ink and cipher.Elias Thorne, a quiet Oxford scholar, is torn from his books and plunged into this clandestine world. Commanded by the ruthless Sir Francis Walsingham, he must untangle the secret codes that bind a sprawling conspiracy-a web of sedition stretching from the dark alleys of London t...
IN THE SHADOW OF THE THRONE, EVERY WORD IS A WEAPON.
In 1571, England was a powder keg. Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by plotters at home and the great Catholic powers abroad. To defend the realm, her spymasters have built a new kind of arsenal: a network of spies armed not with daggers, but with ink and cipher.
Elias Thorne, a quiet Oxford scholar, is torn from his books and plunged into this clandestine world. Commanded by the ruthless Sir Francis Walsingham, he must untangle the secret codes that bind a sprawling conspiracy-a web of sedition stretching from the dark alleys of London to the courts of Mary, Queen of Scots. Every letter he deciphers is a death warrant; every pattern he exposes brings England one step closer to civil war.
Across the Channel, Michael Davies, a devout young priest, is dispatched on a holy mission: to minister to England's persecuted Catholics. But his path is soon entangled in the same conspiracy, forcing him to become a courier of secrets he cannot read and a player in a game whose rules he doesn't understand. As a fugitive in his own homeland, he must learn that survival requires a different kind of faith.
From the torture chambers of the Tower to the blood-soaked decks of the Spanish Armada, Elias and Michael are two men on opposite sides of a war fought in whispers. One hunts for the truth, the other for salvation. As their paths converge toward a final, bloody reckoning, each must decide what he is willing to sacrifice: his country, his faith, or his soul.
For in the age of queens and conspirators, the most dangerous lies are the ones written on the human heart.
In 1571, England was a powder keg. Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by plotters at home and the great Catholic powers abroad. To defend the realm, her spymasters have built a new kind of arsenal: a network of spies armed not with daggers, but with ink and cipher.
Elias Thorne, a quiet Oxford scholar, is torn from his books and plunged into this clandestine world. Commanded by the ruthless Sir Francis Walsingham, he must untangle the secret codes that bind a sprawling conspiracy-a web of sedition stretching from the dark alleys of London to the courts of Mary, Queen of Scots. Every letter he deciphers is a death warrant; every pattern he exposes brings England one step closer to civil war.
Across the Channel, Michael Davies, a devout young priest, is dispatched on a holy mission: to minister to England's persecuted Catholics. But his path is soon entangled in the same conspiracy, forcing him to become a courier of secrets he cannot read and a player in a game whose rules he doesn't understand. As a fugitive in his own homeland, he must learn that survival requires a different kind of faith.
From the torture chambers of the Tower to the blood-soaked decks of the Spanish Armada, Elias and Michael are two men on opposite sides of a war fought in whispers. One hunts for the truth, the other for salvation. As their paths converge toward a final, bloody reckoning, each must decide what he is willing to sacrifice: his country, his faith, or his soul.
For in the age of queens and conspirators, the most dangerous lies are the ones written on the human heart.
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