This is actually an edition that has been signed by the author. Rescued from the charity shop bag at home.

Blurb:

It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is offered a discharge of his debts by Sir Theodore Janssen, a director of the South Sea Company, on one condition: he must secretly convey an important package to a friend of Jansses's, Ysbrand de Vries, in Amsterdam.

The package safely delivered, Spandrel barely survives an attempt on his life, only to be blame for the murder of de Vries himself. When de Vries's secretary, his English wife and the package go missing shortly afterwards, Spandrel realises that he has become a pawn in several people's games. British Government agents, and others, are on his trail, believing that the mysterious package contains secrets that could spark a revolution in England.

Spandrel's only chance of survival is to recover the package and place its contents in the right hands. But whose hands are the right hands? And what exactly are the contents?

RELEASE NOTES:

Having had a massive clearout of books, I'll be releasing about 25 books in York on Tuesday. I have no idea where I'll put them, just wherever I decide on the day.

plan on reading the book in the next several days