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Blue Water
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
This is the secret report of disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago, written on the mail ship Tankerville en route to Philadelphia. His mission is to aid the civil servant charged with carrying a vital treaty to Congress that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French in their war against Britain. When the civil servant meets an unfortunate end, Laurence becomes the one person standing between Britain and disaster. It is his great chance to redeem himself—except that his predecessor has taken the secret of the treaty's hiding place to his watery grave. As the ship is searched, Laurence quickly discovers that his fellow passengers all have their own motives to find the treaty for themselves. And as a second death follows the first, Laurence must turn sleuth in order to find the killer before he has an 'accident' of his own.
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- V. O'Regan
- 01-11-23
A high seas adventure
The second in this series of historical political thrillers takes place on the high seas and proved a fascinating adventure
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- Jamie
- 16-03-23
Highly recommended
An intriguing and well read story, which kept my attention throughout., with an engaging cast of characters and a series of twists and turns in a cunningly worked plot.
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- Ishani Guha-Shepherd
- 30-08-24
Characters
Not as good as the first adventure, but just as convoluted and complicated. Also certainly not swashbuckling as a book on the high seas would be. I often get disappointed by this. The characters were strong and interesting and I still love Lawrence Jago and his 'employer' Philpott. Am also glad the narrator has stayed on the audiobook, can't fault him, totally on point with the various accents. I look foward to the final installment and just wish Laurence had some good times!
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- The Curator
- 16-03-23
Great sequel
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a sucker for a hapless hero and John Jags has very little hap but in this book he’s surpassed in this by a bear cub! At points I was more worried about the bear than any of the humans but they grabbed my attention back when needed. Great fun.
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- P. G. Tite
- 28-03-23
A rip roaring yarn
settle down for some high seas trouble, a locked room mystery and cat and mouse caper, trying to work out who holds the mcguffin of the piece...
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- Martin S.
- 22-03-23
Honestly quite dull
I found this to be one of those books you keep expecting to find it's feet and give an inspirational twist or novel approach but just never does. Instead we plod through the story with the full witted protagonist consistently coming to the wrong conclusions, with predictable red herrings and flat intrigue.
The narrator doesn't help - a voice less suitable is hard to imagine and he barely attempts to convince you he is a seafarer/aristocrat/civil war era civil servant. He sounds more like a bored children's TV presenter
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