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Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch, encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn incessantly in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

Meet Nell Wingfield, a gutsy young print-maker supplying satirical pamphlets to 1820s London. Distraught after her mother's death, Nell is duped into working at one of the 'Houses of the Quality', the brothels on St James's, where she finds herself turning tricks with men at the heart of the English establishment. But when one of them is murdered in his bed, it is time for Nell to flee.

1588. In Lisbon the Spanish Armada prepares to set sail for England. Behind it is a dark and secretive game, one of murder, treachery and deceit. This is the realm of the spy, and home to legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. Gradually his intelligence sources vanish, until finally he sends the young soldier Christian Hardy to discover the truth. But time is running out- for Hardy, and for England...

An interview with Jason Goodwin, author of The Janissary Tree.