| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 08 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Alex Wyndham. |
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Performed by Alex Wyndham. |
| Summary |
British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King's Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the "aid by Loyalists" proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright. Black manages-just-to get Washington aboard the Peregrine, which sails away. Upon their arrival in London, Washington is imprisoned in the Tower to await trial on charges of high treason. England's most famous barristers seek to represent him but he insists on using an American. He chooses Abraham Hobhouse, an American-born barrister with an English wife-a man who doesn't really need the work and thinks the "career-building" case will be easily resolved through a settlement of the revolution and Washington's release. But as greater political and military forces swirl around them and peace seems ever more distant, Hobhouse finds that he is the only thing keeping Washington from the hangman's noose. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Fiction.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wyndham, Alex, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781488204890 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1488204896 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12064322 |
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