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Plague

Plague

by C C Humphreys (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The French Executioner, this is an epic and thrilling tale of a serial killer who threatens London's rich and poor during the Great Plague of 1665. If you enjoy novels by CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, you will love PLAGUE. London, May 1665. On a dark road outside London, a simple robbery goes horribly wrong - when the gentlemanly highwayman, William Coke, discovers that his intended victims have been brutally slaughtered. Suspected of the murders, Coke is forced into an uneasy alliance with the man who pursues him - the relentless thief-taker, Pitman. Together they seek the killer - and uncover a conspiracy that reaches from the glittering, debauched court of King Charles to the worst slum in the city, St Giles in the Fields. But there's another murderer moving through the slums, the taverns and palaces, slipping under the doorways of the rich. A mass murderer. Plague.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Century
Published: 17 Jul 2014
ISBN 10: 1780891423
ISBN 13: 9781780891422
Book Overview: From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The French Executioner, a serial killer threatens London's rich and poor during the Great Plague of 1665. Epic, thrilling, if you enjoy novels by CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, you will love PLAGUE.

Media Reviews
I've just finished Plague by C C Humphreys. Fast, exciting historical adventure to be read in huge gulps. A runaway carriage of a book: high speed, exciting. 1665 brilliantly recreated. -- Conn Iggulden, author of WAR OF THE ROSES
The very best of history, mystery, romance and sheer fun. (Well, and a few rats...) London itself is as vivid a character as the actors, adventurers and intriguers. Plague is one of those books where you turn the last page and wish there were more. -- Diana Gabaldon, author of the OUTLANDER series
Pacy, exciting. A brilliant depiction of seventeenth-century London in all its glory and grime. -- Simon Scarrow, author of THE BLOOD CROWS
A glorious white-knuckle ride through a London torn apart by recent civil war and caught on the edge of plague. The plot is a perfect crime thriller with something new round each corner: always unexpected, always satisfying. This matches the earthy lyricism of Pepys with the crime-crafting talents of a Rankin or a Cornwell in a vibrant, utterly immersive wonder of a novel. Impossible to put down! -- Manda Scott, author of BOUDICA
With kings and cripples, rats and rotters, highwaymen and loose women, you'd never think a lethal virus could be so much fun. * Sunday Sport *
Author Bio
C.C. (Chris) Humphreys - born in Toronto, raised in London - is an actor, playwright, fight choreographer and novelist. `My first job out of school was as a motorcycle messenger, based in St Giles, where much of Plague takes place. It was a ghastly slum in 1665, and thousands died horribly there in the Great Plague. I think many Londoners have a deep-buried memory of the devastating things that have happened to their city. Walking those streets again, it's not hard to sense the bones just below the paving stones.' Chris has written nine historical fiction novels including The French Executioner, the Jack Absolute Series, Vlad and Shakespeare's Rebel. His latest, Plague, is a thriller set in London 1665. Fire will follow in July 2015.