The King's Evil

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Meeting in the ashes of a London ravaged by the Great
_ Fire, Christopher Redmayne, an architect with
Cavaher instincts, and Jonathan Bale, a Puritan constable, are hardly kindred spirits. Redmayne dedicates himself to the rebuilding of a city that Bale beheves was destroyed by its own inner corruption.
The two men are thrown together when they catch thieves
_ who are stealing from the house that Redmayne h^
designed for Sir Ambrose Northcott. The fouT'ttiurder of Sir Ambrose joins them again, albeit reluctantly, in a complex and perilous investigation that takes them through " the brothels and gaming houses of London, across to Paris, and back again to the hedonistic Court. Imbued with th^ contradictions at the heart of the Restoration period, this novel marks the debut of two intriguing and entertaining characters who overcome mutual antipd^thy to become an effective crime-fighting team.
Praise for Edwar ¦'^Marston:
'Marston is probably the best of our British writers of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Meeting in the ashes of a London ravaged by the Great
_ Fire, Christopher Redmayne, an architect with
Cavaher instincts, and Jonathan Bale, a Puritan constable, are hardly kindred spirits. Redmayne dedicates himself to the rebuilding of a city that Bale beheves was destroyed by its own inner corruption.
The two men are thrown together when they catch thieves
_ who are stealing from the house that Redmayne h^
designed for Sir Ambrose Northcott. The fouT'ttiurder of Sir Ambrose joins them again, albeit reluctantly, in a complex and perilous investigation that takes them through " the brothels and gaming houses of London, across to Paris, and back again to the hedonistic Court. Imbued with th^ contradictions at the heart of the Restoration period, this novel marks the debut of two intriguing and entertaining characters who overcome mutual antipd^thy to become an effective crime-fighting team.
Praise for Edwar ¦'^Marston:
'Marston is probably the best of our British writers of historical crime^tories' BIRMINGHAM PoST
'Sparkling with humour, dramatic twists and deft turns of phrase' pvbushers Weekly
'All the swashbuckling thrills and romantic swagger of blood-and-ihunder tragedies' New York Times Book Review
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