Dwarfish Charlie Boylan carries a loaded pistol into the House of Commons. Hewas a police spy for nearly forty years and now he wants a pension and knowswhat wi... » 

Dwarfish Charlie Boylan carries a loaded pistol into the House of Commons. Hewas a police spy for nearly forty years and now he wants a pension and knowswhat will get it. Did he between Waterloo and Wellingtons funeral cause thePeterloo riot to happen? Was it Charlie who fingered the Cato StreetConspirators? Did Shelley really drown by accident? And at the opening of theGreat Exhibition was it he who saved the Queen from being blown up? With darkundertones in its revelations of the orchestrated state repression thatfollowed the Napoleonic Wars A Very English Agent travels through the earlyyears of the 19th century in a rumbustious funny novel worthy of the times itdescribes. «