The Spy Chapter One

Pero da Covilhã was a man of mystery. A spy who could speak Castilian like a Castilian and Arabic like a Moor. But even he could never have imagined the mission that he would be given by the King of Portugal. To travel not just across Spain and Italy but further into the lands of the East than any Christian man had journeyed since Marco Polo all the while knowing that every man or woman he met on the way could be an assassin sent to kill him.
Covilhã’s mission was crucial to the success of the Portuguese plan to sail to India and beyond but if he did survive what would the Portuguese king would want him to do next?
This book is dedicated to Pero Da Covilhã, a spy without peer.