Synopsis
By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory
In the rural peace of modern England a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War. But when the battle ends, a real corpse is left it the Swine Brook; and an aristocratic but impoverished revolutionary claims to have found a cache of 'Cromwell's Gold'.
When David Audley is called in, seventeenth-century secrets and the deadly game of modern espionage clash in a brilliantly intricate thriller of bluff and counter-bluff.
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Book Description
By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory
From the Back Cover
WAR GAME
In the rural peace of modern England a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War. But when the battle ends, a real corpse is left in the Swine Brook; And an aristocratic but impoverished revolutionary claims to have found a cache of ‘Cromwell’s Gold’.
When David Audley is called in, seventeenth-century secrets and the deadly game espionage clash to make a brilliantly intricate thriller of bluff and counter-bluff.
“Brilliant”
EVENING STANDARD
“A treat”
THE TIMES
“Fascinating from first to last”
SUNDAY TIMES
“A brilliant and exciting mixture of seventeenth-century history and present-day politics...Both Anthony Price and Dr Audley give masterly performances”
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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