To Kingdom Come, Will Thomas
To Kingdom Come, Will Thomas
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To Kingdom Come

Author: Will Thomas

Narrator: Antony Ferguson

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/27/2016


Synopsis

When a bomb destroys the Special Irish Branch of Scotland Yard, all fingers point to the increasingly brazen factions of Irish dissidents seeking liberation from English rule. Volunteering their services to the British government, Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn set out to infiltrate a secret cell of the Irish Republican Brotherhood known as the Invisibles. Posing as a reclusive German bomb maker and his anarchist apprentice, they are recruited for the group's ultimate plan: to bring London to its knees and end the monarchy forever.

Their adventures take them from an abandoned lighthouse on the craggy coast of Wales to the City of Light, where Llewelyn goes undercover with Maire O'Casey, the alluring sister of an Irish radical. Llewelyn again finds himself put to the test by his enigmatic employer as he is schooled in the deadly science of bomb making.

Fraught with explosives, secret initiations, and vicious stick fights, and featuring historical figures such as Charles Parnell and W. B. Yeats, To Kingdom Come is a riveting sequel to Some Danger Involved.

About Will Thomas

Will Thomas is the author of the Barker and Llewelyn series, including Anatomy of Evil and Fatal Enquiry, as well as The Black Hand, The Hellfire Conspiracy, The Limehouse Text, To Kingdom Come, and the Shamus and Barry Award-nominated Some Danger Involved. He lives in Oklahoma.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Blaine on July 03, 2023

The 2nd book of this series deals with the Irish Rebels who bombed Scotland Yard back in 1884. Barker volunteers he and Llewelyn to go undercover to discover who is behind that bombing and the bombings that were scheduled to destroy much of London only 30 days later. As with all things in this serie......more

Goodreads review by Ioana on March 16, 2015

2.5 stars, rounded up This series has the potential to be everything that I love in a light-read: it's a mystery novel, it's historical and the setting and characters are believable Victorians, it's well written, and it doesn't skirt around "politics" as most mystery novels do: it tackles the actual......more

Goodreads review by Marit Rae on September 07, 2021

Overall, I found that this book gave me what I wanted. That being said, I found that the author really skirted around a truly thorough analysis and perhaps a more empathetic understanding of the ~villainous Irish~ in this story. Many historical mysteries have books that focus on the Irish independen......more