
The Plot Against Pepys
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 16. August 2007
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-571-22713-6 (ISBN)
Description
It is 1679 and England is awash with suspicion. Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism has provoked panic in politicians and a zealous reaction from the legal system. Everywhere - or so it is feared - Catholic agents are plotting to overthrow the king. Now Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, finds himself in a position few people then or now would have expected - charged with treason.
Imprisoned in the Tower of London and abandoned by the embattled king, Pepys knows that time is running out before his show trial and execution. So, with customary brilliance, he sets to work investigating his mysterious accuser, Colonel John Scott, and uncovers a life riddled with ambition, forgery, treason and - ultimately - murder.
Using rare access to Pepys' own account of the affair, James Long and Ben Long brilliantly evoke a turbulent period in England's history - and tell the forgotten story of the two most dangerous years in the life of the legendary diarist.
Imprisoned in the Tower of London and abandoned by the embattled king, Pepys knows that time is running out before his show trial and execution. So, with customary brilliance, he sets to work investigating his mysterious accuser, Colonel John Scott, and uncovers a life riddled with ambition, forgery, treason and - ultimately - murder.
Using rare access to Pepys' own account of the affair, James Long and Ben Long brilliantly evoke a turbulent period in England's history - and tell the forgotten story of the two most dangerous years in the life of the legendary diarist.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
525 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-22713-6 (9780571227136)
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Persons
James Long and Ben Long are father and son. James graduated from Oxford with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He has written eleven novels, several of which are based on historical fact. He also writes as Will Davenport.
Ben graduated from the University of Bristol in 2003 with a history degree.
He has directed several plays and written one, which has been performed on both sides of the Atlantic. This is his first book.
Ben graduated from the University of Bristol in 2003 with a history degree.
He has directed several plays and written one, which has been performed on both sides of the Atlantic. This is his first book.