Рори Клементс – лучшие книги

Англия на пороге войны. Со дня на день ожидается казнь Марии, королевы Шотландии, а Испания уже собирает боевой флот, чтобы отомстить за нее, и посылает в Англию наемного убийцу расправиться с английским «морским драконом», Френсисом Дрейком. Джону Шекспиру, главному агенту секретной службы сэра Френсиса Уолсингема, приказывают защитить Дрейка, ибо, если Дрейк умрет, Англия будет открыта вторжению испанцев. Одновременно с этим заданием Шекспир расследует смерть молодой знатной особы, изуродованное тело которой было обнаружено в сгоревшем доме на окраине Лондона. Поиски жестокого убийцы молодой женщины странным образом выводят Джона Шекспира на испанского наемника…

«Мученик» — первая книга из уже полюбившегося читателям знаменитого детективного цикла о Джоне Шекспире, созданного автором Рори Клементсом, победителем конкурса на лучшую историческую прозу Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award.

Англия и Испания в состоянии войны, а двор королевы Елизаветы раздираем соперничеством ее двух молодых и амбициозных фаворитов. Блестящий мастер следствия Джон Шекспир уже пять лет как в отставке, но граф Эссекс предлагает Джону расследовать одно странное дело, связанное с исчезновением английской колонии Роанок в Северной Америке, однако в результате Шекспир раскрывает заговор с целью убийства Елизаветы.

«Мститель» — второй роман популярного британского писателя Рори Клементса о расследованиях королевского тайного агента Джона Шекспира.

Весна 1593 года. Золотой век Елизаветы близится к закату, и королевский двор кишит интригами. Англии грозят голод и новая эпидемия чумы. Испания собирает новую армаду и строит коварные планы. У голландской церкви происходит взрыв, цель которого — напугать бежавших от войны и поселившихся в Лондоне голландцев. Джону Шекспиру поручают расследовать обстоятельства…

Just a few days before Christmas, a reluctant John Shakespeare—brother of a rising playwright—answers a plea for help from Joshua Peace, Searcher of the Dead, but he has no idea the kind of menace he will face. A naked man has been found in a snowdrift, a wreath of holly crowning his head and a bullet in his back.

As all around him prepare for the festive season,…

The Elizabethan Bond is back . . . Under the threat of a second Spanish Armada, John Shakespeare is sent to Lancashire to guard over England's secret weapon and its inventor, the maverick magician Dr. Dee. But nothing is so simple when the country is a hotbed of secret loyalties and civil unrest. During his mission, Shakespeare stumbles upon Catholic priests in…

WHAT IF HITLER HAD SURVIVED?

In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must find the truth behind Hitler's death. But exactly who is the man in the bunker?

'MASTER OF THE WARTIME SPY THRILLER' - FINANCIAL TIMES
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Germany, late summer 1945 - The war is over but the country is in ruins. Millions of refugees and holocaust survivors strive to rebuild their lives in displaced persons camps. Millions of German soldiers and SS men are held captive in primitive conditions in open-air detention centres. Everywhere, civilians are desperate for food and shelter. No one admits to having voted Nazi, yet many are unrepentant.

Adolf Hitler is said to have killed himself in his Berlin bunker. But no body was found - and many people believe he is alive. Newspapers are full of stories reporting sightings and theories. Even Stalin, whose own troops captured the bunker, has told President Truman he believes the former Führer is not dead. 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...

Dramatic, intelligent, and brilliantly compelling, THE MAN IN THE BUNKER is Rory's best WWII thriller yet - perfect for readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and Joseph Kanon.

From the award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author of CORPUS

The eve of war: a secret so deadly, nothing and no one is safe

June 1939. England is partying like there is no tomorrow, gas masks at the ready. In Cambridge the May Balls are played out with a frantic intensity - but the good times won't last... In Europe, the Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, and in Germany the persecution of the Jews is now so widespread that desperate Jewish parents send their children to safety in Britain aboard the Kindertransport. Closer to home, the IRA's S-Plan bombing campaign has resulted in more than 100 terrorist outrages around England.

But perhaps the most far-reaching event of all goes largely unreported: in Germany, Otto Hahn has produced the first man-made fission and an atomic device is now a very real possibility. The Nazis set up the Uranverein group of physicists: its task is to build a superbomb. The German High Command is aware that British and US scientists are working on similar line. Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is where the atom was split in 1932. Might the Cambridge men now win the race for a nuclear bomb? Hitler's generals need to be sure they know all the Cavendish's secrets. Only then will it be safe for Germany to wage war.

When one of the Cavendish's finest brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is once more drawn into an intrigue from which there seems no escape. In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin and from Washington DC to the west coast of Ireland, he faces deadly forces that threaten the fate of the world.

Praise for NUCLEUS

'Rory Clements evokes the nervous, reckless build-up to the outbreak of war in a convincingly detailed thriller' Daily Mail

'The series really hits its stride with the second volume. The murder of a physicist is one of many storylines that Clements juggles with aplomb' Daily Express

'A pulsating story that brings alive the fraught, paranoid and terrifying months when the world stood on the brink of war. Dark history with a thrilling fictional edge' Lancashire Evening Post

'Well-researched and plausible, Nucleus offers an attractive combination of history and suspense' Shots Magazine

'A pacy and dramatic historical spy thriller' Historical Novel Society

'I am already looking forward to the next Tom Wilde novel. This is a great read' Nudge Books

'Nucleus is a fascinating historical thriller which is totally convincing in its authenticity, alive with menace and teeming with characters that stay with you long after the last page is turned' Jaffa Reads Too Blog

Praise for CORPUS

'Dramatic . . . pacy and assured' Daily Mail

'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' The Times

'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express

1595. When Spanish troops attack the Cornish coast in a daring raid, the Queen is speechless with rage. Is another Armada on the way? Is it revenge for the sacking of Spanish shipping? Or is there a more sinister motive?

As John Shakespeare desperately searches for answers, England's secret defences begin to crumble as, one by one, his network of spies is horribly murdered. But what has all this to do with Thomasyn Jade, driven to the edge of madness by the foul rituals of exorcism? And what is the link to a group of priests held prisoner in the bleak confines of Wisbech Castle?

England is a viper's nest of conspiracy.

It is 1582, and the conflict between Protestants and Catholics threatens to tear the country in two. While Queen Elizabeth I holds the reins of power, there are those whose loyalty lies with her imprisoned cousin—Mary, Queen of Scots.

On his first major mission for Sir Francis Walsingham, the young John Shakespeare is ordered…

In London's smoky taverns, a conspiracy is brewing: a group of wealthy young Catholic dissidents plot to assassinate Elizabeth, free Mary Queen of Scots - and open England to Spanish invasion. But the conspirators have been infiltrated by Sir Francis Walsingham's top intelligencer, John Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, however, is torn: the woman he loves stands accused of…