HISTORICAL STORIES of EXILE

Literature & Fiction

Newcomb, Charlene

Chadwick, Elizabeth

St.John, Elizabeth

Hollick, Helen

Belfrage, Anna

Morton, Alison

Whitehead, Annie

Thorpe, Marian L

Harlond, J.G.

Livingstone, Loretta

Genre Fiction

Taw River Press

Early spring 1635, Ludovico da Portovenere, Italian merchant and charismatic rogue, is on a familiar voyage from Constantinople to Amsterdam when his journey is interrupted. Waylaid first by a storm and then by a pirate raid, Ludo's life is cast into upheaval and international espionage. The storm forces Ludo to make an unscheduled landing in Spain, where he is invited to undertake a secret commission to Holland. The Thirty Years War drags on with no end in sight and the Spanish monarch is anxious to disrupt the Dutch rebels' finances. The mission intrigues Ludo, so he accepts. A tale of power and intrigue, The Chosen Man is a fictional account of the events that triggered the Dutch scandal known as "tulip mania."

The Chosen Man

Literary

Knox Robinson Pub

<p>Book 1 in The Chosen Man Trilogy.From the bulb of a rare flower blooms ambition and scandal. Rome 1635 - as Flanders braces for another long year of war, a Spanish count presents the Vatican with a means of disrupting the Dutch rebels' booming economy. His plan is brilliant. They just need the right man to implement it.<br />
Enter Ludovico da Portovenere, a charismatic spice and silk merchant. Intrigued by the Vatican's proposal--and hungry for profit--Ludo sets off for Amsterdam. His voyage is interrupted, though, first by a storm, then by a pirate raid. The storm brings him a quick-witted young admirer he uses as a spy; the pirate raid brings him a girl, Alina, who won't go home. Each development has significant consequences for Ludo's plans and even greater ones for the people he is involved with.<br />
Set in a world of international politics and domestic intrigue, The Chosen Man spins an engrossing tale about the Dutch financial scandal known as tulip mania--and shows how decisions made in high places can have terrible repercussions on innocent lives.</p>

Penmore Press LLC

On a stormy night in March 1941, Maisie Rose Hawkins leaves her drunk husband, Stan, out in the rain--and he disappears. Detective Sergeant Bob Robbins and young PC Laurie Oliver are called out to investigate and discover that Stan's small fishing boat is gone, the rope sawn through. As Bob searches for answers, it becomes apparent that in this small Cornish village where everyone knows everything about everybody, nobody quite knows the truth. Beneath the surface of village life, a fierce battle is being waged against wartime deprivations. Shopkeepers quietly evade rationing restrictions. Food inspector Archibald Bantry, charged with enforcing those restrictions, dies in a suspicious car crash. Various leads connect a sea cave full of smuggled black-market goods to the missing Stan Hawkins. And what seems like the work of local malcontents becomes more complex and dangerous when Bob stumbles on the truth in a disused copper mine, where a much deadlier affair is underway.

Local Resistance

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

By Force of Circumstance (Chosen Man Trilogy)

Action & Adventure

Private Lives

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Lucero

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