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Click to read more about Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Firedrake's Eye. by Patricia Finney. ebook. Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews; An English Catholic fanatic is on his way to England with Spanish gold and a plan to murder Queen Elizabeth I. Simon Ames knows that if England is conquered by Spain, he and all his family will be taken by the Inquisition, tortured until they. Patricia Finney's more recent trilogy - Firedrake's Eye, Unicorn's Blood and Gloriana's Torch - is also lavishly researched, if a good deal more fantastical than Irwin's brand of psychological.
Firedrake's Eye is the first in a series of three Elizabethan thrillers; followed by Unicorn's Blood and Gloriana's www.doorway.rugh they can be read in isolation, they work very well and compulsively as a sequence. you follow the main characters David Becket and Simon Ames' adventures in an England torn by religious factions and the very real fear of invasion by the Spanish and the assassination of Queen Elizabeth. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!. By the author of two superior adventures set in Roman Britain (A Shadow of Gulls, ; The Crow Goddess, ), a splendid Elizabethan cat-and-mouse, spy-and-chase tale based on real events of , and featuring dazzling, death-teasing principals surrounding a Spanish plot to assassinate Elizabeth I. Spies and counterspies, warriors, poets and poet madmen, pawns and populace- -all speak here in a diction remarkably echoing with the flavor of an earlier English--gamy, efficient, unobtrusive.
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