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The king's exile / by Andre...
Spring, 1648. When Thomas Hill, a bookseller living in rural Hampshire, publishes a political pamphlet he has little idea of the trouble that will follow. He is quickly arrested, forced on a boat to Barbados and condemned to life as a slave to two of the island's most notoriously violent brothers. In England war has erupted again, with London under threat of attack. When news of the king's execution reaches the island, political stability is threatened and a fleet commanded by Sir George Ayscue arrives to take control of the island for Cromwell. The threat of violence increases. Thomas finds himself witness to abuse, poison, rape and savage brutality. When a coded message from Ayscue to a sympathiser on the island is intercepted, Thomas is asked to decipher it. A disastrous battle seems inevitable. But nothing turns out as planned. And as the death toll mounts, the escape Thomas has been relying on seems ever more unlikely...
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monografia Rebiun38016249 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun38016249 m o d cr ||||||||||| 130411s2013 enkb o 000 f eng d GBB338899 bnb 9780593068885 hardback) 0593068882 hardback) 9780593068892 paperback) 0593068890 paperback) 9781446487280 ePub ebook) 1446487288 ePub ebook) INARC eng INARC OCLCO OCLCL e-uk--- 823.92 23 Swanston, Andrew Andrew D.) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjDyjCMJXc6xbpcY3crtqP The king's exile by Andrew Swanston London Bantam Press 2013 London London Bantam Press 1 online resource (362 pages map) 1 online resource (362 pages Text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Spring, 1648. When Thomas Hill, a bookseller living in rural Hampshire, publishes a political pamphlet he has little idea of the trouble that will follow. He is quickly arrested, forced on a boat to Barbados and condemned to life as a slave to two of the island's most notoriously violent brothers. In England war has erupted again, with London under threat of attack. When news of the king's execution reaches the island, political stability is threatened and a fleet commanded by Sir George Ayscue arrives to take control of the island for Cromwell. The threat of violence increases. Thomas finds himself witness to abuse, poison, rape and savage brutality. When a coded message from Ayscue to a sympathiser on the island is intercepted, Thomas is asked to decipher it. A disastrous battle seems inevitable. But nothing turns out as planned. And as the death toll mounts, the escape Thomas has been relying on seems ever more unlikely... Great Britain- History- Civil War, 1642-1649- Fiction Grande-Bretagne- Histoire- 1642-1649 (Guerre civile)- Romans, nouvelles, etc Great Britain. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP Code and cipher stories Detective and mystery fiction. Code and cipher stories. Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Detective and mystery fiction. Historical fiction.