Firedrake's Eye is the first in the short three-book Simon Ames/David Becket series by Patricia Finney, who is perhaps better known via her pen name, PF Chisholm, under which she writes the Sir Robert Carey series.
Eye is free right now at Kindle US and UK, and Kobo US. And probably Kobo UK, but I don't check there...
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HJSDWQW
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/firedrake-s-eye-1
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HJSDWQW
Spoiler:
Quote:
An English Catholic fanatic is on his way to England with Spanish gold and a plan to murder Queen Elizabeth I.
Simon Ames knows that if England is conquered by Spain, he and all his family will be taken by the Inquisition, tortured until they confess and then burned at the stake – for being Jews. That’s why he works for the Puritan Sir Francis Walsingham, the Elizabethan M.
When Ames is beaten up in an alleyway off Fleet Street, David Becket, an ex-soldier with an ugly past, kills the attacker and rescues him. But is Becket in league with the assassin himself?
Tom O’Bedlam dances around London with his angels and devils and the Queen Moon. He’s a lunatic, too mad to explain his dreadful secret – that he knows who the assassin is and when he will strike.
Through the mean streets of a dirty and dangerous 16th century London, across thatched rooftops and under London Bridge with its freight of houses and shops, Becket, Ames and Tom fight to find the assassin and kill him before he kills the Queen.
Which of them will die?
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Also note that if you like this one, and want to read the remaining two, there is an omnibus of all three that has been on sale occasionally in the past, and might offer a better price if you are patient, even if just for two of the three titles. Info on that is in this previous post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3993786