Things Unborn
Eugene Byrne
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In Britain, three-quarters of the population died during the Atom War and its aftermath, but the dead are being re-born to take their place. Dozens of small wars led to a final struggle between the rabid fundamentalist Nationalists and the democratic Coalition of all creeds. The Coalition's army was led by a reborn Lawrence of Arabia, while the Nationalists wanted to put the Duke of Monmouth on the throne.
Now, in 2008, the Coalition's victory is threatened by new plots against the government and the king — Richard of Gloucester, Shakespeare's hunchback murderer, who is writing his memoirs for his retirement nest egg.
Inspector Scipio Africanus, war-hero and former slave, Detective Constable Jenny Pearson, whose usual line is catching pickpockets, and apprentice detective Guy Boswell, who was a Battle of Britain fighter pilot until ten days ago, find themselves dealing with murderous conspirators who plan to seize power and create a totalitarian Britain where being different will mean certain death.
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