TY - BOOK AU - Gortner,Christopher TI - The Tudor vendetta SN - 9781444720891 PY - 2014/// PB - Hodder & Stoughton KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Elizabeth, 1558-1603 KW - Fiction N2 - November, 1558: Elizabeth I has ascended the throne but the first days of her reign are already fraught with turmoil, the kingdom weakened by past strife and her ability to rule uncertain. When Brendan Prescott, her intimate spy, returns to court at the new queen's behest, he soon finds himself thrust into a deadly gambit against his old foe, Robert Dudley. But Elizabeth has an even more dangerous assignation in store for him when her favoured lady-in-waiting, Lady Parry, vanishes in Yorkshire ER -