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๐ Fiction
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Sea Change
โ Scribed by Goddard, Robert
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Year
- 2000;2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Edition
- New Ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0552146021
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โฆ Synopsis
Review
Hugely enjoyableTotally entertaining. Time Out
A lively mix of political intrigue and high adventure. Guardian
From the Paperback edition.
Product Description
It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is offered a discharge of his debts by his principal creditor, Sir Theodore Janssen, a director of the South Sea Company, on one condition: he must secretly convey an important package to a friend of Janssens, Ysbrand de Vries, in Amsterdam.The package safely delivered, Spandrel barely survives an attempt on his life, only to be blamed for the murder of de Vries himself. When de Vriess secretary, his English wife and the package itself go missing shortly afterwards, Spandrel realizes that he has become a pawn in several peoples games. British Government agents, and others, are on his trail, believing that the mysterious package contained secret details of the great South Sea scandal secrets so explosive that their publication could spark a revolution in England.Spandrels only chance of survival is to recover the package and place its contents in the right hands. But whose are the right hands? And what exactly are the contents?.
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Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780552146029
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