EAN: 9781526678355

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue deceit revenge and ambition Kill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill. The year is 1480 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John Collan living in a remote village with his widowed father these matters seem far away. But history has other plans for John. Stolen from his family exiled - first to Oxford then to Burgundy and then Ireland - and apprenticed to a series of unscrupulous political operators he finds himself groomed for power not as John Collan but as Edward Plantagenet 17th Earl of Warwick - and rightful heir to the throne. Far from home at the Irish court preparing for a war that will see him become king or die trying John has just his wits - and the slippery counsel of his host's daughter the unconventional Joan - to navigate the choppy waters ahead. Seething with revenge and machination sparkling with wit and humanity and roaring with adventure and bravado The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens.

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