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A Very English Agent

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A Very English Agent

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Dwarfish Charlie Boylan carries a loaded pistol into the House of Commons. He was a police spy for nearly forty years, and now he wants a pension and knows what will get it. Did he, between Waterloo and Wellington's funeral, cause the Peterloo riot to happen? Was it Charlie who fingered the Cato Street Conspirators? Did Shelley really drown by accident? And at the opening of the Great Exhibition was it he who saved the Queen from being blown up? With dark undertones in its revelations of the orchestrated state repression that followed the Napoleonic Wars, "A Very English Agent" travels through the early years of the 19th century in a rumbustious, funny novel, worthy of the times it describes.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
448
Release Date:
2003-07-01
Publication Date:
2003-07-01
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0349115087
ISBN13:
9780349115085
Weight:
324 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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