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The Bitter Trade
By: Piers Alexander;
Language: English
Quality: Like New
Genre: Action and adventure, Historical fiction, Novel,
ISBN: 9780992864507
SKU: BE500444857038
Pages: 432
Description: 'I am Calumny Spinks. Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose. It has swung there in the faintest of breezes, waiting for me, all my life.' In 1688, torn by rebellions, England lives under the threat of a Dutch invasion. Redheaded Calumny Spinks is the lowliest man in an Essex backwater: half-French and still unapprenticed at seventeen, yet he dreams of wealth and title. When his father's violent past resurfaces, Calumny's desperation leads him to flee to London and become a coffee racketeer. He has just three months to pay off a blackmailer and save his father's life - but his ambition and talent for mimicry pull him into a conspiracy against the King himself.
