This is a 17 th-century Mission Impossible and a real page-turner. Lloyd describes beautifully the world of religious unrest, distrust and violence that prevailed at the time, and his descriptions of well-known people (Christopher Wren and Isaac Newton) and places (Somerset House and the Bastille) are fascinating. He finds he can’t trust those he thought he could, finds support from most unlikely sources, and is terrified when he sees a man whose death he had witnessed. In his quest Harry travels to both London and Paris and is submerged in a world of deceit, intrigue, bluff and double bluff, threat and enticement. Harry is tasked with finding out who had killed Hudson and who had been impersonating him for a decade and why. However, there was a dwarf calling himself Jeffrey Hudson living quite happily in the county of Rutland. Hudson had returned to England in disgrace after taking part in a duel some ten years previously and, so it seemed, been murdered. His first job is to investigate the death of a dwarf, who is identified as Jeffrey Hudson, once Queen Henrietta Maria’s pet. Wanting to flee his shame, he agrees to work for Sir Jonas Moore as an investigator at the Board of Ordnance. Harry Hunt, assistant to Robert Hooke, the renowned scientist and architect, feels humiliated after the failure of one of his experiments demonstrated at the Royal Society. The Poison Machine (A Hunt and Hooke Novel, 2)
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