An edition of The audacious crimes of Colonel Blood (2015)
The audacious crimes of Colonel Blood
the spy who stole the Crown Jewels and became the king's secret agent
By Hutchinson, Robert
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Language
eng
Pages
341
Description:
"One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize the crown jewels from the Tower of London. Astonishingly, he managed to escape with the regalia and crown before being apprehended. And yet he was not executed for treason. Instead, the king granted him a generous income and he became a familiar strutting figure in the royal court's glittering state apartments ... Hutchinson paints a ... portrait of a double agent bent on ambiguous political and personal motivation, and provides an ... account of the perils and conspiracies that abounded in Restoration England"--Dust jacket flap.