The Courier's Tale

As the King''s young cousin, an admired scholar living in Italy, it
falls to Reginald Pole to make the case for Henry''s divorce from
Katherine of Aragon. And it falls to the hapless Michael Throckmorton -
the younger son of an impecunious titled family - to become Thomas
Cromwell''s messenger to Pole in Rome.

This dubious privilege makes of Throckmorton''s life a tragicomedy of
endless journeys b...