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Unicorn's Blood

Unicorn's Blood

by PatriciaFinney (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $11.36

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    Hardcover 1998

    $3.25
Synopsis

Patricia Finney's outstanding literary thriller plunges into the vivid and deadly world of the 16th century: from the torture chambers of the Tower to the elegant artifice of court life; from the bawdy-houses of Southwark to the Queen's own bed. Why are the Jesuits, the Queen's Puritan councillors and even the Queen herself searching for the mysterious Book of the Unicorn? What ancient scandal threatens Elizabeth Tudor as she fights to avoid executing her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots? And what of the man waking up in the dungeon with no memory of who he is? David Becket and Simon Ames, the two mismatched heroes of FIREDRAKE'S EYE find themselves unwillingly in the thick of the struggle to unravel the plot.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 05 Aug 2004
ISBN 10: 0753805456
ISBN 13: 9780753805459
Book Overview: Reissued alongside the book, Gloriana's Torch, with fantastic series cover look. Both Firedrake's Eye and Unicorn's Blood have been optioned by the BBC Patricia Finney's novels have received excellent reviews: 'Historical fiction the way it should be written...A talent for writing of espionage makes her the le Carre on the 16th century' Ruth Rendell 'Compulsive...[Finney] has succeeded in conjuring up the filthy crowded splendour of 16th century London' TLS 'The plot builds ingeniously to a Day of the Jackal denouement. To read this book is to live for a while in another London. For all its dirt and danger there is a rich pleasure in losing yourself in its tortuous streets' Sunday Times

Author Bio
Patricia Finney has been writing since she was seven. Her first novel, A Shadow of Gulls, was published when she was eighteen and won the David Higham Award. Since then she has had a variety of jobs which have included editing a medical journal and writing a weekly TV preview column in the London Evening Standard.