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Chargement... The Bear Pitpar S.G. MacLean
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  pluckedhighbrow | Sep 7, 2019 |   After his exploits in Yorkshire, Seeker is back in London. He joins a group of soldiers in clearing out a gambling den and in the process finds evidence of a gory death involving a bear. But how can he pay attention to this crime when someone is plotting to kill Cromwell? I do like this series, full of all the details about Puritan life, but making great use of the way many people's loyalties continued in another direction entirely. It does make me wonder if Puritan England really was such a small world: Marvell, Milton and John Aubrey turn up in this one. (  ) charl08 | May 30, 2019 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieDamian Seeker (4) Prix et récompenses
'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion' Sunday Times London, 1656: Captain Seeker is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell's Republic 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. 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? 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. 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? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is the fourth book in the series and the character of Damian Seeker is still a mystery. Here the focus is on Seeker's relationships with the women in his life and the modern feelings are still appropriate. I love the setting of these books as the Commonwealth rule is rarely used as a setting and the political machinations are, if anything, more complex that they first appear. Again there is a complex plot which builds layer on layer until the end when the reader realises that all is linked. The ending here is traumatic (for the fan) but leaves a glimmer of hope! (