📗 Libro en inglés THE KING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

Queen Elizabeth&rsquos spymasters recruit an unlikely agent&mdashthe only Muslim in England&mdashfor an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from &ldquoone of the best writers in America&rdquo (The Washington Post)

&ldquoEvokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carré and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.&rdquo&mdashThe Wall Street Journal

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The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem.

The queen&rsquos spymasters&mdashhardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism&mdashfear that James is not what he appears. He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family&rsquos Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. With time running out, London confronts a seemin