Photo: On turncoats: 'Satrire on clergymen who changed denominational allegiance according to political  convenience with an etching showing the interior of a tailor's shop. On the left, a clergyman tries on a gown asking his tailor, "Can't you make this [High Church] Gown into a [Low Church] Cloak upon Ocasion"; the tailor replies, "Yes Sr. I can very easily". In the centre, a tailor holds out a measuring tape to another clergyman, saying "Sr. let me take ye length of your Conscience"; the clergyman replies, "Let ye Gown be lin'd with a Cloak to turn at pleasure" indicating a cloak lying on the floor in front of him. Behind, a man enters through a door, saying "My Masters Customers are Viccars of Bray". To right, three men sit sewing on a tailors' board, one saying, "We need not fear Cowcumber time", another, "My Master can please Trimmers", and the third, "I'll go to St Mary Overs and pray for the Doctor [Sacheverell]"; in front of these tailors lie a pair of shears, a ball of thread, a tailor's goose (smoothing iron) and a bodkin; on the wall behind hang a coat and a cloak.  Engraved title, inscriptions, and verses in three columns in which mention is made of two "turncoat" clerics, Samuel Palmer and Charles Leslie. (London: c.1709).'


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It’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: become a wealthy man by selling out Britain’s spy network to France. The French take Grey for a disgruntled ex–naval officer, blithely unaware that Grey had lost his wife to an unlucky shot from a French cannon.

Now, after many years serving King and Country, Grey seizes the opportunity to fight a covert war of his own. He travels to Paris, and―playing the part of the invaluable turncoat the French believe him to be―proceeds to infiltrate the highest levels of Napoleon’s government. If he can outwit his handlers, outmatch his French counterparts, and outrun Napoleon’s secret police, Grey may just avenge his wife’s death and turn the tide of war in England’s favor. Bursting with action and intrigue, Hold Fast sends readers headlong into an unrelenting spy thriller