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The Blanket of the Dark

John Buchan

Publisher: Birlinn

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Summary

In this classic historical adventure by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, a young monastic scholar is groomed to take the throne from Henry VIII. It is 1536, and powerful men reveal to Peter Pentecost that it is he, and not the tyrannical Henry VIII, who should be on the throne of England. Can they persuade him to risk everything in a treasonable rebellion against the throne? In the hands of John Buchan—one of Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite writers—the dark, dangerous days of Tudor England come alive like never before.
Available since: 09/12/2012.
Print length: 304 pages.

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