Dark Fire (Sansom Novel)
Dark Fire is a crime novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is Sansom's second novel, released in 2004, and also the second in the Matthew Shardlake series. Set in the 16th Century during the reign of Tudor King Henry VIII, it follows hunchbacked lawyer Shardlake's search to recover the long lost formula for Greek Fire.
The novel was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2005.
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