Revenger

Excellent … both a thriller and a history lesson … it succeeds on both literary and dramatic levels … It is an amazing book that combines detail of Tudor life and language with an exciting adventure story. Clements is obviously an enthusiastic scholar and manages to convey all the atmosphere and customs of the sixteenth century in a convincing action novel … The author has a masterly style that holds the attention and carries the story effortlessly forward … Clements’s second novel combines political intrigue in high places with the cruelty and depravity of the times. It is a successful formula and his third book will be eagerly awaited - Sunday Express

A historical thriller to send a shiver down your spine. Atmospheric … it demonstrates energy, elan, a fine ear for dialogue and a grasp for the intrigues of Elizabeth I’s court. Clements also demonstrates the compelling eye for detail and character that Bernard Cornwell so memorably brought to Rifleman Sharpe … I could not tear myself away, it is that good - Daily Mail

The sights, sounds and smells of Elizabethan London are resurrected in Rory Clements’s marvellous Revenger, in which intelligencer John Shakespeare (brother of you know who …) administers what can only be described as ruff justice - Daily Telegraph

Step into the world of Elizabethan intelligencer John Shakespeare and you put your very life in peril, whether it be by the blade, the rope or the rack … High adventure has never been more exciting, and a life-and-death shoot-out at a lonely Masham farm makes for a storming climax - Northern Echo

This is a substantial and satisfying novel … I love this book and it is a great successor to the first book. John Shakespeare is established as a swashbuckling hero of the first order and his family are becoming important to the story. I look forward to another tale of John Shakespeare - Crimesquad

Revenger is a page-turning mix of mystery, political intrigue and adventure, as gripping as any modern-day thriller - Keighley News