Sea Change - Couverture souple

Goddard, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552146021 ISBN 13 : 9780552146029

Editeur : Corgi, 2001

Synopsis

Robert Goddard takes us to eighteenth-century London, Amsterdam and Rome for a spell-binding mystery involving a mysterious package, murder and financial scandal.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire and read History at Cambridge. His first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award and was dramatized for TV, starring John Thaw.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 Janssen's, 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 Vries's secretary, his English wife and the package itself go missing shortly afterwards, Spandrel realizes that he has become a pawn in several people's games. British Government agents, and others, are on his trail, believing that the mysterious package contains secrets that could spark a revolution in England.

Spandrel's 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?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corgi
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552146021
• ISBN 13: 9780552146029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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