A Man Against a Background of Flames

<p>Ideas are dangerous . . .</p><p>James Appleby’s career as a social historian is drifting into mediocrity until the phone call that changes his life forever.</p><p>Appleby uncovers a dangerous secret hidden deep in a chest of 400-year-old documents. To his horror its discovery ignites a global firestorm that threatens to engulf all that he loves.</p><p>Expertise in Elizabethan country life wasn’t supposed to be controversial. But when Appleby and his Dutch colleague Van Stumpe find evidence about the suppression of a heretical cult they arouse the ire not just of Machiavellian academics but a worldwide swathe of religious fundamentalists.</p><p>As the discoveries inspire thousands of followers their enemies begin a murderous hunt from Amsterdam to Washington New York and all over England.</p><p>And Appleby discovers just how dangerous ideas can be . . .</p>