Firedrake's Eye Hardcover - 1992

This book is in excellent condition, no wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases. "Brilliantly written in language eerily reminiscent of sixteenth-century England and filled with the dazzling color and drama of Tudor England, Firedrake's Eye concerns a meticulously constructed plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I. Tom O'Bedlam, the mad son of prominent Catholic family, stumbles upon evidence that his hated brother has returned to England to spearhead a scheme to assassinate the Queen.Patricia Finney transports the reader back in time to the dirty, dangerous underbelly of 1583 London. Combining accurate and detailed historical research with story-telling of an unusually high caliber, Firedrake's Eye brilliantly evokes that danger and treachery of Tudor politics." Good Reads "Patricia Finney's career started with a bang when her first novel A SHADOW OF GULLS was published before she went up to Oxford aged 18 to study History, back in the mists of time, when dinosaurs roamed.Having found out early what she could do, she has kept doing it. To date she has (mainstream) published:the Sir Robert Carey Elizabethan crime novels under the pen name PF Chisholm - eight of them so far;three Elizabethan spy novels as Patricia Finney;two Elizabethan noir novels as Patricia Finney;one contemporary romantic thriller - LUCKY WOMAN - under Finney;three children's books about Jack the daffy Labrador in Doglish (Finney) and various odds and sods including the sequel to GULLS and WRITERITIS, about how to write a novel.Her dayjob career has been... complex. At the moment she is living in Hungary and learning Hungarian and writing a non-fiction book about her mother's adventures as a child in wartime Hungary. She is really enjoying not doing a dayjob at the moment." Good Reads