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Blood On The Strand
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Rebellion
is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner, spy
for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting
a planned revolt in Dublin, but soon realises that England's capital
is no haven of peace. He is ordered to investigate the shooting of a
beggar during a royal procession. He soon learns the man is no vagrant,
but someone with links to the powerful Company of Barber-Surgeons. The
master, the Earl of Clarendon, is locked in a deadly feud with the Earl
of Bristol, and an innocent man is about to be hanged in Newgate. Chaloner
is embroiled in a desperate race against time to protect Clarendon,
to discover the true identity of the beggar's murderer, and to save
a blameless man from the executioner's noose.
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