Hold fast : a novel / J.H. Gelernter.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 250 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 813/.6Â 23
- PS3607.E417Â H65 2021
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Altoona Public Library Adult Fiction | Altoona Public Library | Adult Books | F Gelernter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35331000055390 |
"Advance reading copy"--Cover.
"A desperate sea battle; a fortune risked on the turn of a card; a duel at dawn with the loser ... Patrick O'Brian meets James Bond. The year is 1803, and the British Secret Service is contending with a belligerent France under Napoleon. The service suffers a blow in the loss of a prime agent, Thomas Grey, who-despondent at his wife's untimely death-resigns from British Intelligence and departs England for Boston, where he intends to become a lumber merchant. His plan to start a new life is thrown abruptly off course when a French intelligence network attempts to recruit him as an informer, and, in the process, exposes a grave new threat to Britain that Grey can't ignore. Confronting it seems likely to grant the grief-stricken widower a chance of extracting a personal revenge. A relentlessly paced and vividly imagined spy tale, Hold Fast will delight and entertain fans of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, and Ian Fleming's James Bond"--
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