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Dark Fire

By C. J. Sansom

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| Paperback | 9780330411974

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Book Description

It is 1540, and Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as “the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England,” is pressed to help a friend's young niece who is charged with murder. Despite threats of torture and death by the rack, the girl is inexplicably silent. Shardlake is about to lose hContinue

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Dark Fire by C J Sansom

1540 was the hottest summer of the sixteenth century but Matthew Shardlake was doing his best to hold his legal practice together, which was made more difficult by the fact that he believed himself to be out of favour with Thomas Cromwell. He tried t ... (read full critics)

thebookbag published on Sat, 1 Jan 2011

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A quite fascinating novel about the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake during the period leading up to the execution of Thomas Cromwell. The sights and smells of Tudor London bring the story to life as Matthew aided by Cromwell's servant Barak set out to find the secret of Dark Fire - a substance ... (continue)

A quite fascinating novel about the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake during the period leading up to the execution of Thomas Cromwell. The sights and smells of Tudor London bring the story to life as Matthew aided by Cromwell's servant Barak set out to find the secret of Dark Fire - a substance once used by the Byzantines to destroy the Arab navies but lost for centuries.
A good, exciting read.

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