The Bear Pit - (Seeker) by S G MacLean (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion' <i>Sunday Times</i></b> <p/><b>London<i>, </i>1656: </b><b>Captain Seeker is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell's Republic</b> <p/>The Commonwealth is balanced on a knife edge. Royalists and disillusioned former Parliamentarians have united against Oliver Cromwell, now a king in all but name. Three conspirators, representing these factions, plan to assassinate the Lord Protector, paving the way back to the throne for Charles Stuart once and for all. <p/>Captain Damian Seeker, meanwhile, is preoccupied by the horrifying discovery in an illegal gambling den of the body of a man ravaged by what is unmistakably a bear. Yet the bears used for baiting were all shot when the sport was banned by Cromwell. So where did this fearsome creature come from, and why would someone use it for murder? <p/>With Royalist-turned-Commonwealth-spy Thomas Faithly tracking the bear, Seeker investigates its victim. The trail leads from Kent's coffee house on Cornhill, to a German clockmaker in Clerkenwell, to the stews of Southwark, to the desolate Lambeth Marshes where no one should venture at night. <p/>When the two threads of the investigation begin to join, Seeker realises just what - and who - he is up against. The Royalists in exile have sent to London their finest mind and greatest fighter, a man who will stop at nothing to ensure the Restoration. Has Seeker finally met his match?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>S.G. MacLean has a PhD in history from Aberdeen University, specializing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scottish history. She has written four highly acclaimed historical thrillers set in Scotland, <i>The Redemption of Alexander Seaton</i> (shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger), <i>A Game of Sorrows</i>, <i>Crucible</i><i>of Secrets</i> and <i>The Devil's Recruit</i>, and a series of historical thrillers set in Oliver Cromwell's London. The first and third books in the series, <i>The Seeker</i> and <i>Destroying Angel</i>, have won the CWA Historical Dagger and the second, <i>The Black Friar</i>, was longlisted for the same award. S.G. MacLean is married with four children and lives in Conon Bridge, Scotland. Follow her on Instagram @iwritemybike2
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