The Whyte HarteWriting as P. C. Doherty Jankyn's narrative relates his own past, a past spent unwillingly under the tutelage of priests and friars in an Augustinian monastery; his rebellious flirtation with the heresy of Lollardism; and finally his becoming a thief, an accused traitor, and yeoman to Bishop Henry Beaufort, illegitimate grandson of 'The Black Prince', and half brother to King Henry V. It is Beaufort who 'rescues' Jankyn from Newgate prison to serve as

A ruthless con man and a stalking panther

greed and desire

sermons written

she is approached by a man

Stanley Ellin

They want Wall to help secure a national asset - the Double Cross System

Not a Drill and Small Wars

Detective Inspector Martin Beck and his partner Lennart Kollberg are called in on both cases

' GILLY MACMILLAN

it becomes apparent that the kidnappers are motivated by a far higher calling than simple greed

all eyes turn to Freeman

Minter is pulled back into his own troubled past - to a childhood spent in care and the vicious murder of his closest friend