The Roots of BetrayalThe brilliant new Elizabethan thriller from the highly acclaimed author of SACRED TREASON. 1564: Catholic herald William Harley, Clarenceux King of Arms, is the custodian of a highly dangerous document. When it is stolen, Clarenceux immediately suspects a group of Catholic sympathisers, the self styled Knights of the Round Table. Francis Walsingham, the ruthless protg of the queen's Principal Secretary, Sir William Cecil, intercepts a coded message

the Church Knights and their witchfinder would be hot on his heels while his burgeoning power threatesn to tear him apart from within

lying and dying

I was summoned to Dunfermline

but he has little idea where to begin

the multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice - the inspiration for the movie SEVENTH SON

Transfixed by the notion of a third book

The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label

This complication triggers a deadly chain of events when the man the media will come to call the Anonymous Assassin publicly challenges Baker to catch him before he strikes again

Jean's routine of death

its scope and ambition is unparalleled

richer men

Was it suicide or murder