A Cruel Necessity - John Grey, Bk 1 Author:L. C. Tyler This is England in the year 1657, Oliver Cromwell is in power, and joy has essentially been outlawed. A young lawyer with a taste for beer and pretty women, Grey finds pleasures enough, even in this backwater Essex town, but he'd be wise to keep his amusement to himself: A Royalist spy has been found dead in a local ditch, and Cromwell's... more » agents are eager, distressingly eager, to explain to Grey that this is nothing to laugh about.« less