The King at the Edge of the World av Arthur Phillips

229,-

Kjøp

<b>Queen Elizabeth’s spymasters recruit an unlikely agent—the only Muslim in England—for an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from “one of the best writers in America” (<i>The Washington Post</i>)<br><br>“Evokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carré and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.”—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW </i>AND <i>THE WASHINGTON POST</i></b><br> <br>The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to <i>think</i> that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem.<br> <br>The queen’s spymasters—hardened veterans of a long war on terror and relig