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The Mirror and the Light opens in the heartbeat after AnneBoleyn's death, as the young queen's blood is sluiced from thescaffold and Thomas Cromwell picks his way across the wreckageto take up his position as principal councillor to anunpredictable king.Despite his lowly beginnings in a Putneyblacksmith's forge, Cromwell has made a reputation for himselfas one of England's most formidable politicians. On the day ofthe queen's death, he is at the height of his powers. He hasfound a bloody way for the king to escape his marriage,pinning Anne Boleyn and her circle to crimes they could neverhave imagined. He has delivered her to the Calais swordsman'sblade. He has smoothed the path for the king's marriage to histhird wife, Jane Seymour. And he has been rewarded well. Nowboth master secretary and lord privy seal, there are few partsof the state's business that do not pass over his desk.But inrising so high, Cromwell has also attracted powerfulenemies...