Publisher's Synopsis
Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe are lovers, government spies and yet the prime movers in a plot to remove Queen and aristocracy and set up a democratic republic in England in the 1580s, with the help of a motley crew of poets, playwrights, spies, alchemists, gang lords, soldiers of fortune and confidence tricksters. Gentlemen all - except for the alluring Black Lucy, proprietress of the best brothel in London. A rollicking ride through authentic history seen from a completely new angle - Elizabeth's 'Golden Age' turned upside down.
