Death in St James's Park (Thomas Chaloner Series #8)

Superspy of Restoration London, Thomas Chaloner foils an uprising in his eighth outing

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Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among his officials - and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General Letter Office, it is immediately clear that such an act is more than an expression of outrage at the inefficiency of the postal service.

As intelligencer to the Lord Chamberlai...