Series: The Seeker

'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion' Sunday Times London, 1656: The Bear Pit follows Captain Seeker who is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. The Commonwealth is balanced on a knife edge. Royalists and disillusioned former Parliamentarians have united against Oliver Cromwell, now a king in...

WINNER OF THE 2015 CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER. London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies, at home and abroad. London is a complex web of spies and merchants, priests and soldiers, exiles and assassins. One of the web's most fearsome spiders is Damian Seeker, agent...