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The Intelligencer Begins…

A mysterious and enthralling historical novel of a powerful narrative.

In a time when England was governed by intrigue and conspiracy who could anybody really trust?

A Hull scrivener seeking only to become an honourable townsman is drawn into the noise of conflict he cannot escape. It is a path that will lead to faithless office of intelligencer, Captain of Spies, and his own kind of redemption.

A story of betrayal, revenge, conspiracy and murder, of love, corruption, and the mightiest ale in England.

An unjust world needs traitors

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Kingston-upon-Hull 1639-43

Myhel Muddyman a brickmaker’s son is one of the lucky ones, chosen to be schooled an honourable townsman and employed a scrivener to the chamberlain. When Myhel witnesses a shipyard scrivener fall to his death from the town walls, he finds himself spurned by the ambitious chamberlain and disowned by the town he swore to serve.

As storm clouds of civil-war gather Myhel is recruited agent by the scoutmaster in Hull to keep the town safe. Infiltrating the underside of society smoldering with the fires of revolution, Myhel rubs shoulders with the governing authority and leading nobility, only to find nothing is quite what it seems.

The trail to discover the truth leads to a revenge conspiracy and a war fuelled with the ‘mightiest ale in England’. To end the war Myhel must destroy the town that gave him benefit or become the man promised him and live without honour, either choice ends in betrayal and the Intelligencer begins.

The nature of man, unnatural war, and treachery lead from quiet provincial town to noise of the governing house of England.

The noise of man
is an earth made silent

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First published RicassoPublishing 2022

Paperback ISBN 978-1-7399772-1-4
eBook ISBN 978-1-7399772-0-7

OUT OF PRINT

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