To the Bitter End - Softcover

Palliser, Marcus

4.11

187 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099281864 ISBN 13: 9780099281863

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 2002

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The year is 1708 and Matthew Loftus has come a long way. Now a fur trader on the Newfoundland coast, he wants to put his skirmishes with privateers and pirates behind him. Then his old adversary the English Navy sails into the bay forcing him on a mission in the far north. He escapes with his life and must now rescue the people of Esperantia...

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Review:

Full marks again for Palliser! He has produced yet another highly enjoyable read! -- The Historical Novels Review

a broadside of high adventure, desperate conflice and political chicanery that reaches peaks as high as any Atlantic wave -- Northern Echo

a seafaring scribe with a wordsmith's gift to match the best... page turning stuff... strongly written. -- Middlesborough Evening Gazette

‘A thundering 18th-century seagoing series’ -- Evening Telegraph

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Marcus Palliser has created a maverick who faces a choice – piracy or honest trade? In To the Bitter End, Matthew Loftus has come a long way since his humble beginnings. Now a successful fur trader sailing the Newfoundland coast, he wants to put his skirmishes with privateers and pirates behind him. However when the English Navy, his old adversary, sails into the colony of Esperantia and puts the small community under its protection, Matthew is forced by them to sail a perilous rescue mission to the icy reaches of Hudson's Bay. But he discovers another agenda lies behind his journey - to foil the ambitions of the French.

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