THE TUDOR CONSPIRACY
Book ID/图书代码： 06840012B53805
English Summary/英文概要： Winter, 1553: Harsh winter encroaches upon England. In the second book of The Spymaster Chronicles, after THE TUDOR SECRET (February 2011), Mary Tudor has become queen to popular acclaim and her enemies are imprisoned in the Tower. But when she is betrothed to the Catholic prince of Spain, putting her Protestant subjects in peril, rumors of a plot to depose her swirl around the one person whom many consider to be England’s heir and only hope—the queen’s halfsister, Princess Elizabeth.
Haunted by his past, Brendan Prescott lives quietly at Hatfield, far from the intrigues of court. But his idyll is interrupted when his foe and mentor, Cecil, brings him disquieting news about Elizabeth. A captive at court, she’s become the target of the Spanish ambassador, who seeks her demise. Obliged to return to the palace where he almost lost his life, Brendan finds himself working as a doubleagent for Queen Mary herself, who mistrusts her enigmatic halfsister and orders Brendan to secure proof that will be Elizabeth’s undoing.
Plunged into a deadly game of catandmouse with a seductive opponent who carries a secret of her own, Brendan races against time to retrieve a cache of the princess’s private letters, even as he begins to realize that in this dark world of betrayal and deceit, where power is supreme and sister can turn against sister, nothing—and no one— are what they seem.
From the treacherous corridors of Whitehall to the icy prisons of the Tower and precarious heights of London Bridge, the hunt is on and Brendan must fight to unravel a farflung conspiracy that could bring down the entire realm and make Elizabeth queen— or send her straight to the scaffold.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1553年冬天：严冬席卷了英格兰。
在《间谍编年史》的第二本书中，《都铎王朝的秘密》之后（2011年2月），Mary Tudor成为了广受赞誉的王后，而她的敌人都被囚禁在塔中。但是当她与西班牙的Catholic王子订婚后，使她的新教科目处于危险中，密谋弹劾她的谣言传进了另一人的耳朵里，她被认为是英格兰下一代的继承人和唯一的希望---王后的同父异母姐妹，Elizabeth公主。
由于被过去所困扰，Brendan Prescott安静的住在哈特菲尔德，远离了法庭上的阴谋。但当他的敌人也是导师Cecil带给他Elizabeth令人不安的消息后，他平静的田园生活被打断了。作为法庭上的俘虏，他成为了希望他死的西班牙大使的目标。由于义务而不得不回到那使她几乎失去了生活的宫殿，Brendan发现他成为了怀疑她自己同父异母姐妹且命令自己找到毁掉Elizabeth证据的Mary皇后的双重特工。
与一个有着自己秘密的充满诱惑力的对手陷入了一场老鼠爱上猫的致命游戏，Brendan与时间赛跑，检索缓存了公主的私人信件，即便是他开始意识到在他充满背叛和欺骗的黑暗世界里，权力至高无上，姐妹可以互相残杀，没有任何东西---也没有任何人---是他们表现出来那样的。
从白厅奸诈的走廊到塔中冰冷的监狱和伦敦桥危险的高处，狩猎持续上演，Brendan必须不断斗争来揭开那可能使整个玩过衰落漫长的阴谋并让Elizabeth成为王后---或者是将她直接送往绞刑台。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold: UK/Hodder & Stoughton, Germany/Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Poland/Spoleczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, Indonesia/Gramedia, US Audio/Blackstone
Option publishers: Italy/Corbaccio-Longanesi, Spain/Santillana, Portugal/Topseller, Bulgaria/Enthusiast/Alto
About the Author/作者介绍： 克里斯托弗 戈特纳对历史特别是文艺复兴时期历史的痴迷，是其终生的追求。他是写作中的美术大师，侧重对历史的研究，曾任教加州新学院教授关于16世纪历史的大学课程。他广泛旅游来研究他的著作；他经历了中世纪西班牙城堡的生活以及加利亚德在大会堂汉普顿法院来一段嘉伽舞曲；挖掘欧洲各地图书馆档案；并曾试图观察和触摸－或至少，可以欣赏－他所能找到的该期间的许多文物。 Christopher Gortner’s fascination with history, in particular, the Renaissance, is a lifetime pursuit. He holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Writing, with an emphasis on Historical Studies, from the New College of California, and has taught university courses on the 16th century. He travels extensively to research his books; he has experienced life in a medieval Spanish castle and danced a galliard in the great hall of Hampton Court; dug through library archives all over Europe; and has tried to see and touch—or at least, admire—as many artifacts of the period as he can find.
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