The Conscience Of The King Henry Gresham And The Shakespeare Conspiracy The Henry Gresham Series Book 5 Martin Stephen by Martin Stephen 9781780361581, 1780361580 instant download after payment.

Superbly plotted and brilliantly atmospheric, The Conscience of the King finds Henry Gresham embroiled in one of the deadliest and most dangerous parts of Jacobean society: the theatre.The Globe, 1612. As a packed auditorium cranes to see the latest production of the popular tragedy Hamlet, a real-life drama is unfolding onstage. In the ‘play within the play’ the actor playing the poisoned king has just given the portrayal of his life – except this is no performance: the poison is for real. And not only that, but the murdered man is the understudy for the person who should have been appearing: the author of the play itself, William Shakespeare.In Bath, Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to the King, summons the gentleman spy Henry Gresham to his deathbed to give his arch-enemy one final, deadly case. King James I has been indiscreet in his liaison with Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, and an unknown Cambridge bookseller has got hold of their devastating correspondence. Cecil knows that Gresham is the one man who can return the letters, saving the monarchy from a potentially scandalous downfall.The King’s letters aren’t the only papers that the Cambridge bookseller has acquired: two stolen manuscripts by William Shakespeare are also his. And just as these plays contain a terrible, deadly secret, so Gresham’s mission is not everything it seems – he is being used as live bait to draw out a murderous madman who is determined to destroy James I.