by Philip Yorke (Author)

It is 1643.

The bloody English Civil War has been raging for almost a year and the Parliamentarian army is facing defeat.

In desperation, it orders officer, Francis Hacker, to spearhead an audacious plot to bring down the tyrant king, Charles the First.

Courageous and loyal, Hacker is drawn into a deadly deceit that could cost him everything he holds most dear...