NO Dust Jacket Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. STOCK PHOTOS MAY VARY FROM THE ACTUAL ITEM. ACTUAL PHOTOS AVAIL. UPON REQUEST. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: The year 1553, when this strange and exciting tale begins, the Strong Room had a prisoner, John Aumarle, Earl of Bristol, young, not yet twenty-three. For eight years he had been the Tower's prisoner, solely because his father's mother had been too closely related to Edward the Fourth. To the poisoned mind of Henry the Eighth that had been reason enough to behead the father and imprison the son, who at fourteen was too young for the axe. But now Henry had died, his son Edward the Sixth was dead, and Edward's half-sister Mary, was on the throne. The young Earl finds himself moved to the Strong Room. He fears the worst, and so do his dead father's friends. They work fast, but the escape they plot for him is not needed. Suddenly he is released by Mary's order. Out into the unfamiliar world of Tudor England goes John Aumarle, a world that can seem no less astounding to him than it does to the present-day reader. It is a world in which no man of degree can chart a safe course-the very effort to avoid intrigue involves one in intrigue. The young Earl steps from the Tower into a fantastic life of plot and counterplot. Adventure takes hold of John Aumarle, and with him it seizes hold of the reader, not to relax its grip of excitement until the final page, when, from the top of the White Tower, the sound of the alarm gun discloses that the Strong Room has been cheated again. This is a novel which makes for engrossing reading. It introduces a fine new talent, with knowledge on the history of the Tower of London in Tudor times.