Polrudden - Number 2 in series

Informationen zum Autor E V Thompson was born in London and spent nine years in the Navy before joining Bristol police. He moved to Hong Kong, then Rhodesia and had over 200 stories published before returning to England to become a full-time award-winning writer. He passed away in 2012. Klappentext On a wild stormy night in 1813, Nathan Jago, drift fisherman, ex-prizefighter and lord of the manor of Polrudden, rescues a young boy from a drowning mother's arms as a French ship founders on the jagged Cornish rocks. It is an act that will profoundly affect his destiny. Despite hard times, Nathan and his wife Amy adopt Jean-Paul and bring him up with their own son. Nathan considers a return to the ring in the struggle to make a living and keep the ancient house in the family. But events conspire to involve him in a royalist intrigue that eventually leads to Paris - where a beautiful marquise and a dashing count sow the seeds both of tragedy and renewed hope... * The sequel to THE RESTLESS SEA, this is the second in the enthralling 'Jagos of Cornwall' family saga Zusammenfassung * The sequel to THE RESTLESS SEA, this is the second in the enthralling 'Jagos of Cornwall' family saga

Product details

• Authors: E V Thompson, E. V. Thompson
• Publisher: Sphere
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2011
• EAN: 9780751545272
• ISBN: 978-0-7515-4527-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 128 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Jagos of Cornwall; Jagos of Cornwall
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)