Thief. Sharpie. Drunkard. Scammer. And by circumstance, he’s also a pimp! Here’s just a little of what Sir Henry Gresham could tell about his best informant, Will Shadwell. However, politics is not done with white gloves, and in Britain, where the weak monarch James I rules, a man with power and influence is better off knowing his enemies by sight, and the enemies of the crown even more so. But now Will Shadwell is killed. And Gresham, trying to investigate the circumstances of his death, he is unexpectedly drawn into a deadly hunt for Catholic conspirators, which is begun by the unsurpassed master of intrigue and the most powerful dignitary of England, Robert Cecil - a man whom even his devoted servants and allies do not fully trust...