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Execution : a Giordano Bruno thriller / S.J. Parris.

ISBN: 9781643134543
ISBN: 164313454X
Physical Description: 484 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Crime, 2020.

Parris, S. J., 1974- (author.).

Summary:

A historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno--heretic, philosopher, and spy--which finds Bruno going undercover to prevent an assassination plot on Queen Elizabeth. England, 1586. A treasonous conspiracy...Giordano Bruno, a heretic turned spy, arrives in England with shocking information for spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. A band of Catholic Englishmen are plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth and spring Mary Queen of Scots from prison to take the English throne in her place. A deadly trap...Bruno is surprised to find that Walsingham is aware of the plot--led by the young, wealthy noble Anthony Babington--and is allowing it to progress. He hopes that Mary will put her support in writing--and condemn herself to a traitor's death. A queen in mortal danger...Bruno is tasked with going undercover to join the conspirators. Can he stop them before he is exposed? Either way a queen will die; Bruno must make sure it is the right one.