The Black Friar

✍ Scribed by S. G. MacLean

• Book ID: 111599917
• Publisher: Quercus; Hachette Book Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 223 KB
• Series: Damian Seeker 02
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781784293383
• ASIN: B01ATBHMTQ

✦ Synopsis

May 2023 - epub format revised and verified by zardox (no changes to book content).
Series: Damian Seeker #2
ebook, 307 pages
Paperback, 464 pages
Published: 2016
London, 1655, and Cromwell's regime is under threat from all sides. Damian Seeker, Captain of Cromwell's Guard, is all too aware of the danger facing Cromwell. Parliament resents his control of the Army while the Army resents his absolute power.
In the east of the City of London, a group of religious fanatics plots rebellion. In the midst of all this, a stonemason uncovers a perfectly preserved body dressed in the robes of a Dominican friar, bricked up in a wall in the crumbling Black Friars monastery.
Ill-informed rumours and speculation abound, but Seeker instantly recognises the dead man. What he must discover is why he met such a hideous end, and what his connection was to the children who have started to disappear from around the city.
Unravelling these mysteries is challenging enough, and made still harder by the activities of dissenters at home, Royalist plotters abroad and other individuals who are not what they seem...