The Walsingham Gambit

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The Walsingham Gambit provides the reader with a new and unique insight into the hidden history associated with the regicide of Mary, Queen of Scots. This hidden history is revealed in great detail by R. Kent Tiernan, who describes how the English deception planners led by Sir Francis Walsingham designed, engineered, and executed a complex seven-year operation to expand Queen Elizabeth I's power by ending Mary's life.
Tiernan presents a counterintelligence analytical approach utilizing conspiracies and deception between two religious mortal enemies. Historians have explained what happened during this tumultuous period, but this book tells how it happened. Whether interested in history or deception, the reader will be well rewarded with an enhanced understanding of both. This book is a timeless must read for anyone interested in how Mary Stuart was entrapped by Walsingham's gambit. -- James B. Bruce, Ph.D., CIA (Retired), Former Vice-Chairman, Foreign Denial and Deception Committee The difference between American political clowns of the MTG and Santos ilk and 16th-century conspirators against Mary, Queen of Scots, is that our clowns produce no results. Not so, the Elizabethans. According to former intelligence expert and Air Force Academy history professor R. Kent Tiernan, the psychological, devious, secretive, patient machinations of Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State, Sir Francis Walsingham, and her Lord High Treasurer, William Cecil, created a brilliant intelligence and counterintelligence network that made Mary's demise inevitable. Scrupulously researched, but presented with aids to the lay reader, it's fascinating, actually. Machiavellian, definitely. Shakespearean, nearly. * Arizona Daily Star *