, Robert Harris brings his unrivalled ability to create vivid historical characters within tightly-honed plots to the turbulent Civil Wars and Restoration of mid-seventeenth century Britain and America. It is 1660 and Charles II has been restored to the throne after eleven years of republican rule. Eager to draw a line under the recent bloody past, the king’s new Act of Indemnity and Oblivion promises forgiveness for all who opposed the crown, with one exception: the men responsible for executing his father Charles I in
