Jonathan Wild

This is a compelling, fast moving story of crime, political intrigue, deceit and corruption set in 18th cent. London. The notorious Jonathan Wild, self styled 'Thief taker General'is at the height of his power and influence. The South Sea bubble, the most audacious fraud ever perpetrated on the public, bursts and thousands of investors are ruined. Wild inadvertently stumbles across damming evidence implicating the hated George I, Robert Walpole, Prime Minister and high Government Ministers in the plot. The country is facing grave peril from a planned Jacobite invasion from France. London is in turmoil, troops billeted under canvas in Hyde Park. Knowlege of the establishment's complicity could throw England into bloody revolution. Wild must be silenced at all costs. Daniel Defoe, soldier, author, journalist and secret Government spymaster is given the task of silencing Wild. Truth is stranger than fiction, Fact? Fiction? It is left for the reader to judge.