an excellent read. I'm familiar with the era and aware of Walsingham's mooting as the first real spymaster but this take was intriguing, if a little difficult to get into at first. There were several points where I thought, "the story can't end here" and of course it did not, but there were many cliffhanger type moments. The only thing that didn't gel was Walsingham's final action in the epilogue.
Even the author's notes about further reading were informative!