Publisher's Synopsis
Robert Cecil summons the gentleman spy, Henry Gresham, to his deathbed, to give his archenemy one final, deadly case. A bookseller has obtained devastating correspondence between King James I, Robert Carr and Viscount Rochester, Gresham is the one man who can return the letters, saving the monarch from potential scandal. Also in the bookseller's possession are two stolen manuscripts by Shakespeare. Gresham has no cause to realise that he is being used as live bait to draw out a murderous madman, or that he is set to unravel the truth behind the authorship of the greatest plays the world would ever see.
