Gideon's Angel Author:Clifford Beal He came back to kill a tyrant. He found the Devil instead. — London 1653: The long and bloody English Civil War is at an end. King Charles is dead and Oliver Cromwell rules the land as king in all but name. Richard Treadwell -- exiled royalist officer and soldier-for-hire to the King of France's all-powerful advisor, the wily Cardinal ... more »Mazarin -- burns with revenge for those who deprived him of his family and fortune. He decides upon a self-appointed mission to return in secret and assassinate Cromwell. Once back on English soil however, he learns that his is not the only plot in motion.
A secret army run by a deluded Puritan is bent on the same quest, guided by the Devil’s hand. Treadwell finds himself in a desperate turnaround: he must save Cromwell to save England from a literal descent into Hell. But first he has to contend with a wife he left in Devon who believes she’s a widow, and a furious mistress who has trailed him to England, jeopardizing everything.« less