Rory Clements now writes full-time, having previously enjoyed a long and successful career in newspapers. His novels are known for their historical settings and gripping plots that draw readers into bygone eras. Clements masterfully evokes the atmosphere of the period and crafts characters who feel vivid and believable. His works explore the intricate relationships between power, intrigue, and personal destiny.
Set in the Tudor era, this thrilling installment follows John Shakespeare, the Queen's Intelligencer, as he navigates a web of espionage and intrigue. With a blend of historical detail and suspenseful storytelling, the narrative promises to captivate fans of CJ Sansom and SJ Parris. As Shakespeare uncovers secrets and faces danger, the stakes are high in a world where loyalty is uncertain and betrayal lurks around every corner.
Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Into this turmoil a small cart clatters through the streets of London, carrying a deadly load. It is the first in a wave of horrific bombing attacks on the Dutch immigrant community that will change John Shakespeare's life for ever.
In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death... On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland. Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war. As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie?
This big canvas international thriller marks the beginning of a major new series from bestselling, award-winning author Rory Clements.
The thrilling follow up to the Sunday Times bestseller Hitler's Secret, as Tom Wilde returns to unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy.
With WWII on a knife-edge, the most devestating weapon against the Nazis may not be a weapon at all...In Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clement's most intelligent, thrilling novel to date, only the truth can turn the tide of war.
Day by day, American and British intelligence officers subject senior members of the Nazi regime to gruelling interrogation in their quest for their truth. Enter Tom Wilde - the Cambridge professor and spy sent in to find out the truth...
From the award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author of Corpus.
For fans of CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, REVENGER is the second in Rory Clements' acclaimed and bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers. Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, 'does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times
Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call from senior MI5 boss Lord Templeman brings him out of retirement. A nearby village has been locked down by the military, its residents blighted by a deadly illness. No one is allowed in or out. There are rumours the Nazi machine is still operational, with links to Unit 731, a notorious Japanese biological warfare research laboratory. But how could they possibly be plotting on British soil - and why? What's more, Wilde and Templeman's names are discovered on a Gestapo kill list. And after a series of assassinations, an unthinkable question emerges: could an Englishman be behind the plot?
The standalone pre-WW2 crime novel from Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clements - set in Munich in the early 1930s.
A gripping spy thriller for fans of Robert Harris and William Boyd from award-winning author Rory Clements.
For fans of CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, MARTYR is the first in Rory Clements' acclaimed and bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers. Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, 'does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times
Het is het jaar 1587, drie jaar na de laffe moord op Willem van Oranje. In een illegale drukkerij in Londen wordt het lichaam van Lady Arabella, een nicht van koningin Elizabeth, gevonden, lelijk verminkt en bezaaid met ingekerfde symbolen. Deze gruwelijke vondst brengt een omvangrijk jezuïtisch complot aan het licht: de katholieke koning Filips II van Spanje laat priesters Engeland binnensmokkelen om de protestantse heerschappij van koningin Elizabeth I een gevoelige slag toe te brengen. En in hun obsessieve verlangen de ketterij uit te bannen, zijn die geestelijken meer dan bereid martelaar voor de Goede Zaak te worden. Aan één man de taak dergelijke terroristische zelfmoordmissies te onderdrukken: John Shakespeare, inspecteur van de Geheime Dienst. Op de hielen gezeten en tegengewerkt door zijn rivaal Topcliffe, de officiële martelmeester van de Koningin, baant Shakespeare zich een weg door een onderwereld van spionnen, magiërs, hoeren en toneelspelers - onder wie zijn jongere broer, de onbekende schrijver William. Wat is de reden van Topcliffes schaamteloze oppositie? Wat is de relatie tussen de gevaarlijke, voortvluchtige priester en de Hollandse moordenaar Balthasar Gerards?
Podzim 1941. Druhá světová válka se pro spojence nevyvíjí příliš dobře. Pokud se chtějí ubránit Hitlerovi, je zoufale zapotřebí nějaká nová zbraň. V Cambridgi požádá americký zpravodajský důstojník geniálního profesora historie Toma Wildea, aby mu pomohl propašovat záhadný balíček z nacistického Německa – něco tak tajného, že dokonce ani Hitler sám o existenci této věci neví. Tom Wilde ale brzy zjistí šokující pravdu o tomto „balíčku“ a pochopí, proč se nacisté nezastaví před ničím, jen aby zabránili tomu, aby opustil Německo
