Dimensions
160 x 244 x 40mm
December 1852. Shortly after the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, Charlie Boylan attempts to enter the palace of Westminster with a loaded pistol in his pocket. He is owed, so he says, a substantial sum by the government department he has worked for over many years - an adjunct of the Home Office that specialises in subterfuge and espionage.
In 'A Very English Agent', Julian Rathbone combines his uncanny acumen for wit and adventure with a compelling portrait of an England that history often neglects: the dark embers of the early nineteenth century when repression was bloody, commonplace and orchestrated from on high.
