<p><strong>Thomas Clarady risks his life his eternal soul — and his chastity!</strong></p><p>Tom is recruited to spy on a group of radical Puritans at Cambridge University with Francis Bacon as his spymaster -- his tutor in tradecraft and politics. Their commission gets off to a deadly start when Tom finds his chief informant hanging from the roof beams. Now he has to catch a murderer as well as a seditioner. His first suspect is the volatile poet Christopher Marlowe who keeps turning up in the middle of Tom's investigations.</p><p>Dogged by unreliable assistants chased by lusty women and harangued daily by the exacting Bacon Tom risks his heart and soul to stop the villains and win his reward.</p><p><strong>First In Category for the 2015 Chaucer Awards Elizabethan/Tudor period.</strong></p>