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Carregando... A King's Trade (2006)de Dewey Lambdin
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 1799 later in the year... London... " Your personal life...such as it is..." Twigg scoffed on, with a leery roll of his eyes, "has no bearing on your public life, or your service to the Navy. Unless you were a drunkard, a rapist, or a brute so heedless and flagrant as to become a public spectacle, and a newspaper sensation. Thankfully you are rather a mild sort of sinner. You know how to keep your "itches" scratched with little notice. "Sub Rosa", as it were. As an English gentleman should, or he ceases being a gentleman, and then you'd derserve ev'ry bit of your come-uppance"........"Put me in mind of the Scot poet Robert Burns, you do, Lewrie," Twigg said with a thin-lipped smile and simper. "know of him, Hey?" "Aye" Lewrie allowed himself to admit. "Burns said of himself that he was ah...." a professional fornicator with a genius for paternity" Twigg quoted with a chuckle... Ah...hum... Lewrie said clearing his throat with a fist against his mouth. Despite that Burns wrote marvellous songs and poems, " Twigg allowed - thawing a little. "Despite your shortcomings, you are an invaluable asset to the Navy, and the Crown, Lewrie , and I'll not let you get "scragged' over this... Well once again our hero has retired Spymaster Twigg take an interest in him... Lewrie crosses paths with Historical figures who wish to end slavery... and a sea going circus... with a beautiful acrobat...his wife... has a little bit of a thaw for him... and some French Covettes wish to blow him and his convoy up... once again some orginal plotting and story line... some historical facts woven in and a fun read. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieAlan Lewrie (13)
After Yellow Fever decimated the crew of Alan Lewrie's HMS Proteus, it had seemed like a knacky idea to abscond with a dozen slaves from a Jamaican plantation to help man his frigate. But two years later, Lewrie is now suspected of the deed. Slave-stealing is a hanging offense, and suddenly his neck is at risk of a fatal stretching. Once Lewrie has escaped, the master Foreign Office spy, Zachariah Twigg, arranges for a long voyage even further out of the law's reach, to Cape Town and India, as escort to an East India Company convoy. At the Cape of Good Hope a British circus and theatrical troupe also joins the party, teeming with tempting female acrobats, nubile bareback riders, and alluring "actresses" like the seductive but deadly archer Eudoxia Durschenko. It will take all Lewrie's shrewd guile, wit, and steely self-control to worm his way out of trouble, and keep his breeches chastely buttoned to avoid even more troubles . . . or will he? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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