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Queen Elizabeth Is advisor John Dee is in a race to save the Empire with the help of a mysterious manuscript offering global power in this continuation of the lively The New York Times Agents of the Crown series

Settled down in his beloved Mortlake once again philosopher and astronomer John Dee is enjoying the quiet life when Her Majestys spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham darkens his door instructing him to befriend a certain Polish count with an interest in alchemy and angelic communication But when Dee and the count are caught breaking the law trying to convene with angels they are exiled and must make their way to the court of Rudolf Holy Roman Emperor in faroff Prague

Meanwhile Queen Elizabeth learns of Catherine de Medicis infamous Flying Squadron a group of seductive ladiesinwaiting scattered throughout Europe acting as her agents and that one of them is already at work in Prague bending the Holy Roman Emperor to join France and Spain in a crusade to crush Protestant England With Dee on his way to Prague Walsingham sees an opportunity to tip the scales To convince the famously occultloving emperor to join his side Dee must distract him with the esoteric Book of Loagaeth a volume transcribed from the angels that will once decoded allow control of the levers of heaven and earth and everything in between

Terrible dangers await Dee in Prague as he faces challenges at every turn including a reluctant female spy and a ruthless old enemy and he is forced to call upon the many unexpected talents of his wife as well as the playwright Christopher Marlowe