A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the Flashman Papers. When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and...
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Автор: Cameron Christian
Серия: Tom Swan and the Head of St George #2
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
Статус: Закончена
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1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who've taken him captive.He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece...
It is 1843 and Captain Nathaniel Sir Drinkwater embarks on the paddle-steamer Vestal for an inspection of lighthouses on the west coast of England. Bowed with age and honors, the old sea officer has been drawn from retirement on half-pay to...
The ancient holy texts are missing.
The death of the world approaches.
Six extraordinary men have shared one vision of a black tower and a river of blood. Somewhere in the desert wastelands of America, the ultimate battle will be...
Автор: Orczy Baroness
Серия: The Scarlet Pimpernel #4
Язык: английский
Год: 1906
Статус: Закончена
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Juliette de Marny, last scion of an ancient ducal family, has sworn to ruin the man who killed her brother the Vicomte in a duel: Paul Déroulede, now a member of the Assembly. She learns four things while a guest in his house: her brother provoked...
The Season of the...
Автор: Барякина Эльвира Валерьевна
Серия: Russian Treasures #2
Язык: английский
Год: 2018
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Welcome to an awe-inspiring world of Shanghai in the roaring 1920s.
White colonialists see themselves as the supreme race exploiting China for its cheap labor and reaping the rewards of its opium market. But then Russians come and ruin the...
The blask...
By the spring of 1777, the American defenses of the Hudson River north of New York City included a chain laid across the river near Fort Montgomery. The chain was critical to the American defenses, since it would slow any invasion force. Jake Gibbs...