Dimensions
111 x 178 x 35mm
The second in C J Sansom's remarkable historical crime series.
It's 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Shardlake has lived quietly, building up his legal practice and avoiding politics. However, his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of killing her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with Thomas Cromwell - and a new assignment . . .
The secret of Greek Fire, the legendary substance with which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies, has been lost for centuries. Now an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. When Shardlake is sent to recover it, he finds the official and his alchemist brother brutally murdered - the formula has disappeared.
Now Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor London, while trying at the same time to prove his young client's innocence. But, as at Scarnsea, nothing is as it seems . . .
