Ten years after he closed his famous diary, Samuel Pepys, then Secretary of the Admiralty, underwent an ordeal that is relatively unknown today: in 1679 he was accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

A fascinating 17th-century spy story is told by a father-and-son writing team who vividly conjure up the hysterically paranoid atmosphere of a time when the Protestant English, haunted by memories of Bloody Mary, were so petrified of 'popish' plots that Pepys might well have been executed for a crime of which he was clearly innocent.



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