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Bezig met laden... The Blighted Cliffs (2003)door Edwin Thomas
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Very enjoyable book! Lieutenant Martin Jerrold bungles his way through one misadventure after another, in a likeable sort of way, and manages to come out the other end a hero, AND get the girl! This book is lighter than the likes of Patrick O'Brian, but seems to be well-researched. It is nearly impossible to believe it was written by someone so young! Edwin Thomas has a future ahead of him. I am a a lover of all maritime and Napoleonic wars fiction and I have to say, although this first installment in the series is a bit lighter and not as serious as many others, this is truly a delightful romp and nothing but swashbuckling fun. This book has everything you need for jolly good entertainment. Action, adventure, romance, espionage, intrigue, mystery, mischief and mayhem. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. !! Wonderful real believable characters, a hero you just have to love with all his charm, failures and flaws, a story you can't put down from page one to the end. Bravo for Edwin Thomas geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Not many men emerged from Trafalgar without an ounce of credit to their names, but courtesy of an over-fondness for rum and his habitual bad luck, Lieutenant Martin Jerrold managed it. In February 1806, he is given one final chance to redeem his reputation and dispatched to Dover. Things don't augur well when, walking off the effects of a night in the tavern, Jerrold stumbles across a corpse lying on the beach. And they take a distinct turn for the worst when, to his horror and bemusement, he is suspected of murder. With a captain who despises him, and the local magistrate determined to see him hang, he knows clearing his name will require an imporbable reversal of his miserable fortunes. Somewhere in Dover's twisted streets, someone must know something. But Jerrold soon discovers that nothing is as it seems in a town where smuggling is a way of life, where everyone from the fishermen to the colonel of dragoons drinks only the finest French brandy... Distrusted by his superiors, set upon by suspiciously well-informed thugs and attacked by the French at sea, Jerrold does find some sympathy in the less-than-respectable arms of the comely Isobel, but he knows he has but two weeks to save his skin - or perish in the attempt. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Lieutenant Martin Jerrold arrives in Dover in total disgrace and shortly thereafter, finds himself charged with murder, but then discharged, through lack of evidence, but still under suspicion.
His uncle, in the Admiralty, gives him two weeks to clear his name or he will be sent to the Indies, there to die of whatever ghastly fever he picks up.
The locals, deeply in with all the smugglers, aren't willing to give out any information they may have to an officer of the King's navy and his fellow officers keep him under short rein in case of his possible treacherous inclinations.
A fun, light read. An audible book extremely well read by the narrator. ( )