The Drowned City

Gunpowder and treason changed England forever. But a turning tide will bring up bodies... A compelling historical thriller for fans of C.J. Sansom, Andrew Taylor's Ashes of London, Kate Mosse and Blood & Sugar. 'A towering mountain of a black water was bearing down on them, higher than the wooden crane that unloaded the ship's cargoes, higher than the tallest warehouse, higher even than the bells in the church steeple that had begun to toll a frantic warning. But the warning came too late, far too late...' 1606. A year to the day the gunpowder conspirators were executed for treason, a devastating wave strikes Bristol and ravages the city. Some cry that it's God's vengeance. Others seek to take advantage... In the City of London, Daniel Pursglove lies shackled in prison, enduring a fate more bleak than death. But Charles FitzAlan, close adviser of King James I, has his eye on Daniel - and a job in mind that will free a man of his skills from the horrors of Newgate. If he succeeds. For Bristol is a hotbed of Catholic spies, and where better for the lone gunpowder conspirator who was never caught - one Spero Pettingar - to rally his supporters than in the chaos of the flood? Daniel journeys there to investigate the lead, but soon finds himself embroiled in a dark Jesuit conspiracy - and a string of brutal murders...