Martyr - Signed, Lined & Dated John Grisham after months of fruitless searching

after months of fruitless searching leaves the authorities desperate to save face

One of Hannibal's victims

is already a formidable figure and warrior

and asked to work on a commission for the house she is building on the desolate Smugglers' Coast of North Yorkshire

But it is a bargain that is threatened by their clever

Martyr - Signed, Lined & Dated John Grisham after months of fruitless searchingEngland is close to war. Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots, and Spain is already gathering a battle fleet to avenge her. Tensions in Elizabeth I's government are at breaking point. At the eye of the storm is John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in the secret service of Sir Francis Walsingham. When an intercept reveals a plot to assassinate England's 'sea dragon', Francis Drake, Shakespeare is ordered to protect him.