Martin Hyde, a parson’s son born in Suffolk in 1672, is sent to London after his father’s death and soon runs away to sea. He falls in with the plotters preparing the Duke of Monmouth’s rising against James II, carries secret letters, matches wits with a clever woman agent and is swept into the rebellion in the West Country.
A spirited boy’s adventure by the future Poet Laureate, for readers of Stevenson’s Kidnapped. Download the free EPUB.