Intraprendi un emozionante viaggio con Harry Lytle, un agente dell'intelligence che naviga nel pericoloso panorama del Londra del XVII secolo. Questa serie ti immerge nelle macchinazioni politiche e nelle operazioni clandestine della corte di Re Carlo II. Preparati per un avvincente mix di spionaggio, dramma storico e intrighi personali che ti terrà con il fiato sospeso.
London 1664. Harry Lytle has just discovered he has a young cousin, Anne Giles. But he's had the pleasure of meeting her for the first time as a corpse. Harry sets out to track down Anne's killer, he must follow a trail of blood, conspiracy and corruption that takes him to the dark and murky corners of Restoration London.
Harry Lytle makes a welcome return after his trials and tribulations in The Sweet Smell of Decay to investigate the murder of the Earl of St. Albans. His master, Lord Arlington, tasks him with uncovering the name and motive of the Earl s murderer - but there will be plenty more deaths and scrapes for Harry before the name is revealed.
1666. London is recovering from the Great Plague and mourning it's dead - The city is free at last, like a great old bear, beaten to its knees, bloody but unbowed. But the disease slithered out of London to wreak its evil upon other towns and cities. The worst was over, the Pestilence gone, in search of new feeding grounds, bounteous and plentiful in the villages outside of the London. Henry Lytle, who works for Lord Arlington's intelligence service, is sent to Essex where the plague is breeding to track down a traitor and bring him back alive. But things get tricky when Lord Arlington's latest recruit for the mission is a man Lytle left dead. Having learnt first hand of Lord Arlington's barbaric cruelty, Lytle knows he can't refuse the job. Travelling into a disease-ridden village with a murderer seems like a better option.