The Queen's Agent: Sir Francis Walsingham and the Rise of Espionage in Elizabethan England by John P.D. Cooper
The Queen's Agent: Sir Francis Walsingham and the Rise of Espionage in Elizabethan England
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John P.D. Cooper
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The Queen's Agent: Sir Francis Walsingham and the Rise of Espionage in Elizabethan England

John P.D. Cooper

402 pages • first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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A “superb” portrait of the Tudor-age spymaster that “paints a John le Carré–like world of double-dealing and intrigue” (The Sunday Telegraph).  Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; Englan...

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