He has taken risks before, but he always exhibited near-perfect self-mastery. In tragedy, the hero is blind to how he brings about his own doom, either because of hubris or because the gods have willed his ignorance, or both. Mantel’s job is to make the inevitable suspenseful, which she does by turning her protagonist into a tragic hero.

You can Google his fate in eight seconds. In The Mirror & the Light, which closes the trilogy, we witness Cromwell’s fall. Above all, he plays Henry’s court with consummate dexterity, always several moves ahead of potential opponents. His wit is quick and endearing, except when it’s cutting. He excels at ironwork, the culinary arts, the cloth trade, finance, civil engineering, legislation, and diplomacy. Mantel’s Cromwell is omniscient-he has spies everywhere-and omnicompetent. The son of a blacksmith and brewer from the hamlet of Putney, Cromwell has become both chief minister to King Henry VIII and the most powerful man in England aside from the king some say he is more powerful than the king.

Get this books, free trial 30 day just today !I n the first two novels of her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel sings, as it were, the poem of his rise. The blacksmith?s son from Putney emerges from the spring?s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man?s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. Synopsis : This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition includes a personal essay by Hilary Mantel called ?Tudor Places.?With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Read Online The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy #3) Books Full Versions

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel