En la corte del lobo

England, in 1520, is one step away from disaster. King Henry VIII is unable to father a male heir and wants to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, to marry Anne Boleyn, but Cardinal Wolsey, his main adviser, gets only refusals from the pope. In this climate of mistrust and need, Thomas Cromwell came to court, at first as Wolsey's second and later as his successor. Cromwell is a man with an original trajectory: the son of a blacksmith who treated him with great brutality, he becomes a political genius, bribery, charming and boastful, and with a delicate and deadly ability to manipulate facts and people. Relentless in pursuing his own interests, he is as demanding of others as he is of himself. His reform program has to find its way between a parliament that only looks after the interests of its members and a king that fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous drives.