All the Queens Spies, Oliver Clements
All the Queens Spies, Oliver Clements
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All the Queen's Spies

Author: Oliver Clements

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/14/2023


Synopsis

Queen Elizabeth I’s advisor John Dee is in a race to save the Empire with the help of a mysterious manuscript offering global power in this continuation of the “lively” (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series.

Settled down in his beloved Mortlake once again, philosopher and astronomer John Dee is enjoying the quiet life when Her Majesty’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham darkens his door, instructing him to befriend a certain Polish count with an interest in alchemy and angelic communication. But when Dee and the count are caught breaking the law, trying to convene with angels, they are exiled, and must make their way to the court of Rudolf, Holy Roman Emperor, in far-off Prague.

Meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth learns of Catherine de Medici’s infamous Flying Squadron, a group of seductive ladies-in-waiting scattered throughout Europe acting as her agents, and that one of them is already at work in Prague, bending the Holy Roman Emperor to join France and Spain in a crusade to crush Protestant England. With Dee on his way to Prague, Walsingham sees an opportunity to tip the scales. To convince the famously occult-loving emperor to join his side, Dee must distract him with the esoteric Book of Loagaeth, a volume transcribed from the angels that will, once decoded, allow control of the levers of heaven and earth, and everything in between.

Terrible dangers await Dee in Prague, as he faces challenges at every turn, including a reluctant female spy and a ruthless old enemy, and he is forced to call upon the many unexpected talents of his wife, as well as the playwright Christopher Marlowe.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Louise

Do you like reading about political intrigue? How about historical fiction? All The Queen’s Spies is the third book in the Agents of the Crown series, all of which center on the court of Elizabeth I, from the 1570s through the 1580s. The main characters (in addition to the Queen herself) are Francis......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

These John Dee historical novels by Clements are simply great. Intelligent , well written , exciting , funny, excellent historical integration into the story—it checks all the boxes for a great historical fiction series. There is some of Flashman by Fraser in these books which is high praise (at lea......more

I wasn't a fan. Despite the plotline, I was not really engaged and I think the reason is that this is the third in the series - and I had not realised that at the time. I have read much historical fiction set in Elizabethan England, with the focus on her notorious spy network, with characters such a......more