THE KING'S MAN

<p><strong>Continuing the GUARDIANS OF THE CROWN series with a story of spies and traitors and a time when the price of betrayal is death...</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>London 1654: As England languishes in the grip of the reign of Oliver Cromwell there are those who plot to restore the King. </em></p><p>Fleeing her old life Thamsine Granville has nothing left to lose. Alone and friendless the desperate act of throwing a brick at the coach of Oliver Cromwell could well mean her death. Only the act of a stranger saves her. </p><p>Kit Lovell is one of the King's men a disillusioned Royalist who passes his time cheating at cards living off his wealthy and attractive mistress and plotting the death of Oliver Cromwell.</p><p>Far from the bored benevolent rescuer that he seems Kit plunges Thamsine into his world of espionage and betrayal - a world that has no room for falling in love.</p><p>Torn between Thamsine and loyalty to his master and King Kit's carefully constructed web of lies begins to unravel and to save Thamsine he must make one last desperate gamble - the cost of which might be his life.</p>