The Saracen’s Mark
- Автор: Perry S. W.
- Серия: Nicholas Shelby #3
- Год: 2020
- Язык: английский
- Год: Atlantic Books
- Жанр: Исторические детективы
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Betrayal has many guises…
LONDON, 1593. Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power.
Nicholas Shelby – reluctant spy and maverick physician – and his companion Bianca Merton are settling into a life on Bankside. But, in London there is always a plot afoot…
Robert Cecil, the Queen’s spymaster, once again recruits Nicholas to undertake a dangerous undercover mission that will take him to the back alleys of Marrakech in search of a missing informer. However, while Nicholas hunts for the truth across the seas, plague returns once more to London – ravaging the streets and threatening those dearest to him.
Can Bianca and Nicholas’ budding relationship weather the threats of pestilence and conspiracy? And will Nicholas survive his mission and the unpredictability of Marrakesh to return home?
When the devil had gone, I bandaged the fellow’s wounds, borrowed the cart of my friend Ibn Daoud and took him to the Bimaristan al-Mansur to have his grievous injuries treated. It shames me that the Moors will treat him better than the supposed Christian who owned him.
Once I had handed the poor fellow to the physicians, I tarried a while. I hoped I might discover the secret place where they hide the oranges, for I am sure now this is the location. The crates are marked with the symbol , two sickles. When you receive this letter, go to Lyon Quay and watch for cargo marked in the same manner being taken aboard a Company ship. We will know then that the source of the oranges is as I suspected.
I do not yet know when they will strike. In the autumn there is to be a great gathering of Moor chieftains at the sultan’s new palace. It seems likely that this will be when they intend their perfidy. Urge the Pigmy to alert his watchers in Lisbon and Cadiz for signs the Spanish are preparing galleys and mustering soldiers. God willing, we will draw this sting before its venom can flow.
That is all for the present, my old friend. Tonight is `Ushar. The moon will be bright. I intend to go once more to the Bimaristan. God willing, I will discover where they are hiding the oranges.
Say your heathen prayers for me, Hebrew. They will comfort me if the night is cold. I am, in all faith and honour, your loving friend: AS