вЂњWhatвЂ™s the commotion?вЂќ Balty said, looking out the window at the bustle in the courtyard below. He knew from experience that this was not a social call. Samuel Pepys, Clerk of the Acts of the Royal Navy, looked up from his desk. вЂњBrother Sam!вЂќ he said with a heartiness suggesting it was a social call. They got hanged and butchered while alive.Д«althasar shuddered and moved briskly along to his destination, the Navy Office in Seething Lane, a busy warren near the Tower of London. вЂњSymbolic revenge.вЂќ Ten of the fifty-nine men who signed the KingвЂ™s death warrant were rather less fortunate than Cromwell. It had been there for-what-three years now? When the late kingвЂ™s son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he ordered the moldering corpses of his fatherвЂ™s executioners dug up, hanged, and decapitated. Michel was contemplating his excellent good fortune at having such an influential brother-in-law as Samuel Pepys when he looked up and saw the head of Oliver Cromwell, mummifying on a pike. The Judge Hunter is a smart and swiftly plotted novel that transports readers to a new world.Д«althasar de St. We visit the bawdy court of Charles II, Boston under the strict Puritan rule, and New Amsterdam back when Manhattan was a half-wild outpost on the edge of an unmapped continent.

BuckleyвЂ™s wit is as sharp as ever as he takes readers to seventeenth-century London and New England.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Samuel Pepys prepares for a war with the Dutch that fears England has no chance of winning.Д¬hristopher BuckleyвЂ™s enchanting new novel spins adventure, comedy, political intrigue, and romance against a historical backdrop with real-life characters like Charles II, John Winthrop, and Peter Stuyvesant. Helped by a man named Huncks, an agent of the Crown with a mysterious past, Balty travels colonial America in search of the missing judges. When BaltyвЂ™s ship arrives in Boston, he finds a strange country filled with fundamentalist Puritans, saintly Quakers, warring tribes of Indians, and rogues of every stripe. He is to track down two missing judges who were responsible for the execution of the last king, Charles I. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the kingвЂ™s navy.ДЇed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, in which a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a king.

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