THE COURIER’S TALEBY PETER WALKER, BLOOMSBURY, $32.99.
This is the story of the only man to tell Henry VIII the truth about his laughable lust for Anne Boleyn and the cold-blooded murders he committed to get what he wanted.
Reginald Pole was Henry’s Plantagenet cousin, who came close to becoming both Pope and King of England. His story is told through the eyes of Pole’s canny courier Michael Throckmorton, a man who spent much of his life galloping between Italy and London. The novel is based largely on his letters, which are still held in the British archives. The Courier’s Tale is a fascinating lesson in history and in the psychology of a man who dared to cross one of the world’s most powerful men – and paid the price.
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