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1588. In Lisbon the Spanish Armada prepares to set sail for England. Behind it is a dark and secretive game, one of murder, treachery and deceit. This is the realm of the spy, and home to legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. Gradually his intelligence sources vanish, until finally he sends the young soldier Christian Hardy to discover the truth. But time is running out- for Hardy, and for England...

The legendary Knights of St John, the last of the great surviving Christian chivalric orders, have retreated to the small island of Malta. But Emperor Suleiman wants the Knights wiped off the map, and dispatches the greatest armada that ever set sail to annihilate them. The Order seems doomed until the extraordinary bravery of one Englishman, Christian Hardy, attracts the attention of the Grand Master himself...

1588. In Lisbon the Spanish Armada prepares to set sail for England. Behind it is a dark and secretive game, one of murder, treachery and deceit. This is the realm of the spy, and home to legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. Gradually his intelligence sources vanish, until finally he sends the young soldier Christian Hardy to discover the truth. But time is running out- for Hardy, and for England...

Almost 200 years since the Crusader armies took Jerusalem, it is the turn of the Saracen to seek revenge and send an overwhelming force against the last Christian enclave in the Holy Land: Acre. All will be tested and all may perish. For this is the endgame. No quarter will be given and no mercy shown. William of Beaujeu, Grand Master of the Templars, will stop at little to secure the city.

Behind the famous rhyme lies a murderous conspiracy that goes far beyond Guy Fawkes and his ill-fated Gunpowder Plot. In a desperate race against time, spy Christian Hardy must uncover a web of deceit that runs from the cock-fighting pits of Shoe Lane, to the tunnels beneath a bear-baiting arena in Southwark, and from the bad lands of Clerkenwell to a brutal firefight in The Globe theatre. But of the forces ranged against Hardy, all pale beside the renegade Spanish agent codenamed Realm.

Up the remote James River lies a small fort. This first outpost of the new colony is besieged by natives, beset by danger and sabotaged from within. Christian Hardy is there to protect the new possession on behalf of young Prince Henry, heir to the English throne. Ranged against him are King James I and his spymaster Robert Cecil as well as his old adversary Realm, who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on Hardy. A desperate fight for survival begins....

Between Freedom and Equality begins with the life of Capt. George Pointer, an enslaved African who purchased his freedom in 1793 while working for George Washington's Potomac Company. It follows the lives of six generations of his descendants as they lived and worked on the banks of the Potomac, in the port of Georgetown, and in a rural corner of the nation's capital. Between Freedom and Equality offers a moving and inspiring look at the challenges that free African Americans have faced in Washington, DC, since the district's founding.

Let's Talk Jesus is a Christian Podcast, hosted by James Jackson and cohosted by his wife, Toni Jackson. Together they discuss some of the biggest and hardest hitting parts of scripture. With the goal of spreading the gospel to every living creature as we are called to do in the Great Commission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.