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Chesapeake Chaos: a Luke Tremayne Adventure - Malevolence and Betrayal in Colonial Maryland
Geoff Quaife
Chesapeake Chaos: a Luke Tremayne Adventure - Malevolence and Betrayal in Colonial Maryland
Geoff Quaife
In 1650 Luke is sent to Maryland on a joint mission: Catholic proprietor Lord Baltimore seeks to understand his collapsing authority, and General Cromwell needs to assess the situation as a precursor to the English republic?s planned attack on the remaining Royalist colonies on the Chesapeake. Luke becomes involved with a dysfunctional planter family of an old adversary which is beset by a series of murders that may stem from an atrocity committed years earlier in England, or from the current political turmoil on the Chesapeake. The situation involves a family breakdown, bitter planter rivalries, piracy, renegade Amerindians, a major Indian conflict, problems along the Delaware, violent weather conditions , a Puritan settlement expelled from Virginia and invited by Baltimore to settle in Maryland - an offer repaid by their determination to reject their Papist overlord and erect God?s kingdom, the machinations of neighbouring Virginia, the recreation of a Jesuit mission and the clandestine incursion of a foreign power. Luke struggles to solve the murders and save the Chesapeake for England.
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 20 août 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9781426906732 |
Éditeurs | Trafford Publishing |
Pages | 272 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 14 mm · 317 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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