It's 1540, three years after Shardlake's mission to Scarnsea. It is the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Shardlake is trying to keep a low profile, believing himself to be out of favour with Thomas Cromwell and trying to maintain his London-based legal practice. He has been pulled, against his better judgement, into defending Elizabeth Wentworth, charged with murdering her cousin. But Elizabeth refuses to plead either guilty or not guilty. As a result she will be crushed under weights until she pleads or dies. Shardlake is powerless to help the girl yet she is suddenly granted a reprieve - courtesy of Cromwell. The cost of the reprieve to Shardlake is two weeks once again in the service of Cromwell. Cromwell, however, is no longer the triumphant, irresistible force he once was, not least because of the ill-fated marriage he arranged for the King with Anne of Cleves. Cromwell is running out of options, but he has one more card to play: Greek Fire, an ancient weapon considered lost long ago, which has turned up again in the hands of two alchemist brothers. This is the kind of gift to guarantee the King's favour, it is also the kind of gift that people kill for. . .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781405005449
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91965020
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dark Fire
Author
C. J. Sansom
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Historical
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
794g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
C. J. Sansom
Series Title
The Shardlake Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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