Stone heart. Sense K.J.

Summer 1545. France pulls off the Armada of its ships to the shores of Albion. England is in danger, and King Henry VIII, despite the crisis that has gripped the country, spends the latest reserves to confront the enemy. Matthew Chardlake with his faithful assistant Jack Barack, on behalf of Queen Ekaterina Parr, goes to Portsmut, the most vulnerable of cities located in the immediate vicinity of the naval guns of the French. Chardley’s assignment is not easy: everything should be found out about a certain young man, a pupil of the royal court, and why his former teacher who visited the estate of the foster family of a pupil suddenly committed suicide...

in the world of literary heroes and in the world The consciousness of today's reader, the image of Matthew Chardlake occupies an honorable place in a row with such famous characters as Sherlock Holmes, Erkul Poiro, Niro Wulf and Commissar Megre.