The Blighted Cliffs: Book One of the Reluctant Adventures of Lieutenant Martin Jerrold
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0046LUG6W |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nelson, author of Reign of IronThe first of a trilogy set at the turn of the nineteenth century, when Britain was fighting hard to rule the waves; a wonderfully entertaining, swashbuckling adventure series.Not many men emerged from Trafalgar with not an ounce of credit to their names, but through an overreliance on rum and his habitual bad luck, Lieutenant Martin Jerrold managed it. Jerrold is suspected of murder. Distrusted by his superiors, set upon by intriguingly well-informed smugglers, and attacked by the French at sea, Jerrold has two weeks to save his skin---or perish in the attempt. Praise for The Blighted Cliffs "Enchanted readers loath to say bon voyage will impatiently await the sequel to this well-researched, charmingly outrageous debut."---Publishers Weekly "Jerrold swashes his buckles and splices his mainbraces to good effect, and this series will solve the gift problem for all armchair admirals."---Scotland on Sunday (UK). In February 1806, he comes to the White Cliffs of Dover with one final chance to redeem his reputation. Only the fact that no one can identify the corpse prolongs his freedom. "This is a great book, exciting and utterly unique. Before he has been there a day, however, he finds himself standing over a corpse at the foot of the cliffs. For the lover of
Not Like Flashman John A Lee III I bought this book because it promised to be a naval analog of George McDonald Fraser's FLASHMAN. It was not but I was not disappointed.The books takes place on the Kentish coast during the Napoleonic wars. Lieutenant Martin Jerrold has been sent there in disgrace. While he was at the battle of Trafalgar, he took no active part. He managed to get himself stuck in the hold of his ship and lost out on any chance of notice or distinction. So it is that he is sent to work with a revenue cutter and help suppress the thriving smuggling trade. He is only there for a single nig. r michael alt said Five Stars. a wonderful tale wonderfullly written.. "Disappointed by Flashman comparison" according to Jake. I bought this book based on a review which claimed that Martin Jerrold was a "nautical Flashman." I also thought that the opening lines were clever and well written, and certainly sounded like something Flashy would say. I found as I continued to read, however, that the witty tone of those opening lines soon disappeared. What I was treated to thereafter was a rather mundane historical mystery novel with an uninteresting main character. Both Harry Flashman and Martin Jerrold are anti-heroes who drink too much and find themselves falling into trouble, but the comparison e
Sometimes accompanied by the ship's quartermaster, Ducker, and befriended by a sprightly girl called Isobel, Jerrold sets about the almost impossible task of solving the murder and clearing his name. From Publishers Weekly Recounting the misadventures of a hapless, besotted lubber in Dover, England, during the winter of 1806, this well-researched, charmingly outrageous debut is the first volume of a projected seagoing trilogy by an Oxford history scholar. Martin Jerrold is banished to Dover by his embarrassed uncle at the Admiralty to serve aboard the cutter Orestes, chasing smugglers of French contraband. Even bef
Edwin Thomas was born in 1977 and grew up in West Germany, Belgium, and America before returning to England to study history at Lincoln College, Oxford. The Blighted Cliffs was the runner-up in the 2001 Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award for new fiction.