By Paul Carrier
As Francis Drake prepares to lead an English fleet across the Atlantic in 1585, to raid Spanish colonies in the New World, his departure is delayed by the discovery of a dead officer aboard Drake’s flagship.
Robert Dunne appears to have hanged himself, but Drake suspects murder by an unknown member of his crew.
Enter Giordano Bruno, an excommunicated Italian monk, radical philosopher and sleuth employed by Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster. Bruno quickly establishes a link between Dunne and an ancient religious text that Drake seized from a Spanish ship in an earlier expedition.
Will that help Bruno identify Dunne's killer? And is the untranslated manuscript explosive enough to destroy the very foundations of Christianity? Treachery is the fourth historical thriller in S.J. Parris’ Bruno series.
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