1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I - a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king's death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them.
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