Hold fast, a novel, J. H. Gelernter
Type
Label
Hold fast, a novel, J. H. Gelernter
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Hold fast
Oclc number
1196177867
Responsibility statement
J. H. Gelernter
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"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"--, Provided by publisher
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- Revenge -- Fiction
- Naval history
- Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820 -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Widowers
- Seafaring life + History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Novels
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Napoleonic Wars, (1800-1815)
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Great Britain
- Intelligence officers
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
- Sea fiction
- Seafaring life
- Spy stories
- Revenge
- Spy fiction
- 1760-1899
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- Genre8
- Subject22
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Naval history
- Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820 -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Widowers
- Seafaring life + History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Novels
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Napoleonic Wars, (1800-1815)
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Great Britain
- Intelligence officers
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
- Sea fiction
- Seafaring life
- Spy stories
- Revenge
- Spy fiction
- 1760-1899
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1