Act of oblivion / Robert Harris.
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TextPublisher: London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xv, 463 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529151763; 1529151767; 9781529151756; 1529151759Subject(s): Whalley, Edward, -1675? -- Fiction | Goffe, William, 1605?-1679? -- Fiction | Charles, King of England I, 1600-1649 -- Fiction | Fugitives from justice -- Fiction | Treason -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Regicide -- Fiction | Murderers -- Fiction | Escapes -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction | London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction | New England -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- FictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Action and adventure fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: From the bestselling author of AN OFFICER AND A SPY FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF V2 AND MUNICH 'A master storyteller' Observer 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward of e100 hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive.
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From the bestselling author of AN OFFICER AND A SPY FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF V2 AND MUNICH 'A master storyteller' Observer 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward of e100 hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive.
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