The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen Alford
Elizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a 'Jezebel' and heretic who had to be destroyed. The Watchers is a thrilling portrayal of the secret state that sought to protect the Queen; a shadow world of spies, codebreakers, agent provocateurs and confidence-men who would stop at nothing to defend the realm.
Maps and Illustrations, Dates and Calendars, Principal Characters
Chapter 1. Ten Days in November
Chapter 3. English Roman Lives
Chapter 6. Hunting Edmund Campion
Chapter 8. ‘Sundry wicked plots and means’
Chapter 9. The Secret Lives of William Parry
Chapter 10. ‘The enemy sleeps not’
Chapter 11. ‘A very unadvised enterprise’
Chapter 15. Framing the Labyrinth
Chapter 16. An Axe and an Armada
Chapter 17. ‘Good and painful long services’
Chapter 18. Platforms and Passports
Chapter 19. The Fall and Rise of Thomas Phelippes
Chapter 20. Politics and Prognostications
Chapter 21. Ends and Beginnings