MICHAEL WALSH
Biography coming soon.
LATEST BOOK: THE KING'S REVENGE: CHARLES II AND THE GREATEST MANHUNT IN BRITISH HISTORY
'We shall...pursue and bring to their due punishment those bloody traitors who were either actors or contrivers of that unparalleled and inhuman murder.' So vowed the nineteen-year-old Prince of Wales. Within three weeks of the beheading of his father Charles I, he launched the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, spreading out across Europe and America and lasting for over thirty years. When he ascended to the throne in 1660 as Charles II, his search for revenge intensified, with show trials in London and assassination squads scouring foreign countries. He not only sought vengeance against the fifty-nine men who signed his father's death warrant but many others who supported them. Dozens of the most senior figures in England were hanged, drawn and quartered; imprisoned for life; or in a self-imposed exile, in constant fear of the assassin's bullet. History has painted the regicides and their supporters as fanatical Puritans, but among them were exceptional men, including John Milton, poetic genius and political propagandist; Oliver Cromwell's steely son-in-law, Henry Ireton; and the errant son of an earl, Algernon Sidney, whose writings helped inspire the founders of the American Revolution. Cromwell himself was subjected to the most bizarre symbolic revenge when - though long-dead - his body was disinterred and beheaded. Set in an age of intrigue and espionage, The King's Revenge vividly brings these remarkable figures and this astonishing story to life in an engrossing, bloody tale of espionage, double agents, fear and ambition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: The King's Revenge. Little, Brown 2012;
