The Boy Who Led Them - Couverture souple

Chittenden, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913839028 ISBN 13 : 9781913839024

Editeur : ShieldCrest Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

This is the story of England’s most successful smuggler, a priceless treasure, the Kent coast and its troubled past. When Stanley finds a two-hundred year old message from Jacob Swift, the king of smugglers, he gets caught up in an adventure that may solve all his problems and a mystery several hundred years in the making. Raised by a fisherman on the English Channel and taken under the wing of the fearsome Billy Bates, Jacob Swift was leading the country’s most successful smuggling gang at fifteen. He was landing cargoes of brandy, tobacco and silk along the Kent coast whilst fighting battles with rival gangs and revenue offices on both land and sea. Eventually he was hunted and killed to hide a priceless ruby, a ruby stolen by the British government from an Indian temple and smuggled on an East India merchant ship. This is a story of honour, loyalty and England’s troubled past. A story of treasure lost and finally found.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

George began his writing career back in 2005 after reading an Australian best-selling novel that he considered to be awful. Thinking that he could do better he put pen to paper for the first time and within weeks had discovered his calling in life. The first manuscript George completed was a science fiction thriller, and even though it has never been published he has no regrets about spending two years writing it. He said: "Learning by trial and error that novel taught me everything that I needed to know and much more than I would have ever learnt in a classroom studying creative writing". Working as a tour guide teaching Kent's fascinating history George decided to switch genres for his next novel. Growing up in the town of Deal on the Kent coast he had always been fascinated by his town's history. In years past Deal had a terrible reputation for smuggling, England's first example of organised crime. Local men always survived by plying their trades on the sea, and with its location so close to the continent it isn't too surprising that tough local fisherman would eventually turn to a much more lucrative way of earning a crust... by bringing contraband over the channel and avoiding the dreaded burden of taxation! The smuggling trade in Deal grew from strength to strength over the years as illegal cargoes of liquor and tobacco landed on our shores. The trade was such a problem in Deal that eventually drastic action was required and the Prime Minister, William Pitt the younger, sent an army down to the town to deal with the problem once and for all. The soldiers marched along the seafront pouring paraffin over every seaworthy vessel in front of the entire town's folk. Moments later those same local people watched their town's livelihood go up in smoke - if you weren't a fisherman you were a smuggler. This drastic action was only ever employed in Deal. It was these events that inspired George to begin penning his smuggling series, and in 2012 releasing his debut 'The Boy Who Led Them' which has been read and reviewed by readers from all over the world and has never received a negative review. The novel follows the rise and fall of a smuggling gang leader in the town, and was described by Bygone Kent as an absolute page turner they'd highly recommend. In 2013 the young novelist followed it up with an epic prequel 'The Boy Who Felt No Pain' which explores many of the characters from his debuts past, and has never received a review lower than five stars out of five. George's latest novel 'The Man Who Met His Maker' is the writer's most ambitious and in his opinion best novel yet. It's a dark tale of pirates, greed and revenge that will have the reader engaged until the very last pages. George is a national award winning tour guide and works for several large tourism organisations, including English Heritage. He has a head full of different plots in many genres and plans to write novels for many, many years to come.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ShieldCrest Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913839028
• ISBN 13: 9781913839024
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 265
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible