Turncoat
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Judged by contemporaries to be a ''perfidious rogue'', Sir George
Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver
Cromwell''s chief of military intelligence. In the Interregnum he
proved himself a double-dealer who bribed and blackmailed his way
to diplomatic success across Europe (pioneering the practice of
judicial kidnapping and starting two major wars in the process),
before spectacularly betraying his friends to horrifically violent
deaths by defecting to Charles II''s court.Always at the centre of
events, Downing engaged with the most illustrious men and women of
his times: Samuel Pepys was his clerk; John Milton prepared his
letters and dispatches; William of Orange was godfather to his son;
his next-door neighbour was Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia; and when
Downing finally built his street, his surveyor was Sir Christopher
Wren.Turncoat tells George Downing''s story for the very first
time, following him from the asceticism of Puritan New England,
across English battlefields, through courts, chancelleries and
parliaments, to the heart of wealth and power in Restoration
London.
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