The Trade Secret

Elizabethan England. It is a Golden Age of trade and art; merchants

and poets from across the world pack London’s streets. There’s a new

commodity people need-oil. And young Nat Bramble knows just where

to get it...

Nat and Darius Nouredini, a poet in a wrestler’s body, set off in search of

the secret oil well under the abandoned Temple of Mithras in Persia. But

their venture lights a trail of fire which ill follow Nat all the way back to

England, where he becomes caught in the crossfire of a war between the

Crown and the first corporations of London.

A swashbuckling, rollicking tale of espionage, intrigue and adventure from one of the UK's leading comedians and activists.