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" The Chains of Albion is a cracking book. Fast paced, exciting, and funny." ---Conn Iggulden, author of the bestselling Emperor series July 1806. Commanding a prison hulk filled with French captives in the Medway, Martin Jerrold thinks his war can't get much better. He's far away from storm, battle and the other disagreeable elements of naval life. He can keep his mistress, Isobel, close at hand. It seems too good to last, and so it proves. When one of the passengers goes missing, Jerrold's comfortable world is turned upside down. Summoned to London by the First Lord of the Admiralty, he is ordered to recapture the Frenchman at any cost. Jerrold does not know it, but his pursuit will take him clear across from the stinking marshes of Chatham to the slums of London; from the wilds of Dartmoor to the newly fashionable seaside resort of Brighton. But why is the prisoner so important? At the post office, Jerrold's old friend Mr. Nevell is curious; so, too, are politicians from the highest levels of the Whig government, and the Tory opposition led by the cunning Spencer Perceval. Even the seductive Princess Caroline takes an unexpected interest. As Jerrold---with his usual mix of bad t

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Author

Thomas, Edwin

Publisher

Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312325138

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.7 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14