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Birth of a Nation: A Novel
Eddie Bosham, the not entirely English agent, is in prison on a murder charge. But he's not worried. He's innocent, and, anyway, he has hidden proof of a ghastly scandal that could bring down the monarchy. We take up his memoirs where he was left, marooned on the Galapagos Islands with the young Charles Darwin. Rescued and set ashore in Acapulco, he makes his way to Texas....more
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
August 1st 2005
by Abacus
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In many ways, I wish I'd liked this book more than I did; and if the main character had been more sympathetically established at the start, maybe I would have done. By the end of it, I did feel he deserved more credit than his author gives him.
As it was, Julian Rathbone managed (for me) to communicate a sense of detachment from the various adventures Eddie gets embroiled in which is perhaps intended as ironic, or blackly humorous, but which I found off-putting. There were several pas...more
As it was, Julian Rathbone managed (for me) to communicate a sense of detachment from the various adventures Eddie gets embroiled in which is perhaps intended as ironic, or blackly humorous, but which I found off-putting. There were several pas...more
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Julian Christopher Rathbone was born in 1935 in Blackheath, southeast London. His great-uncle was the actor and great Sherlock Holmes interpreter Basil Rathbone, although they never met.
The prolific author Julian Rathbone was a writer of crime stories, mysteries and thrillers who also turned his hand to the historical novel, science fiction and even horror — and much of his writing ha...more
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The prolific author Julian Rathbone was a writer of crime stories, mysteries and thrillers who also turned his hand to the historical novel, science fiction and even horror — and much of his writing ha...more
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