- 368 pages
- English
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The Judge Hunter
About this book
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. London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar "Balty" St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy.Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. He is to track down two missing judges who were responsible for the execution of the last king, Charles I. When Balty'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. 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. 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.Christopher Buckley'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. Buckley's wit is as sharp as ever as he takes readers to seventeenth-century London and New England. 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. The Judge Hunter is a smart and swiftly plotted novel that transports readers to a new world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- 1. London, February 1664
- 2. Downing
- 3. Our Own Brave Balty
- 4. March 2nd
- 5. Baltee ’ates Boats
- 6. March 4th
- 7. The Devil’s Own Work
- 8. A Whole Different Kettle of Nasty
- 9. The Chelsey Trollop
- 10. What a Dreadful Story
- 11. May 23rd
- 12. Narragansetts Coming In
- 13. A Bit of a Tit
- 14. So-Big-Study-Man
- 15. Hide the Outcasts
- 16. What, Only Five Pounds?
- 17. Mr. Fish
- 18. Pepys in a Pickle
- 19. How Clever of God
- 20. May 28th
- 21. The Razor’s Edge
- 22. Integendeel
- 23. Promise?
- 24. A Fish for Mr. Fish
- 25. Ghosts
- 26. June 30th
- 27. Vengeance is Mine
- 28. Mrs. Cobb’s Flower Beds
- 29. Doctor Pell
- 30. Underhill is Critical
- 31. August 2nd
- 32. The Belt
- 33. The Cincinnatus of Long Island
- 34. August 4th
- 35. Being English
- 36. August 15th
- 37. Old Petrus
- 38. Chez Bouwerie Number One
- 39. August 20th
- 40. Too Kind
- 41. Very Good Surgeon
- 42. Parley
- 43. Cincinnatus Agonistes
- 44. Well Done, Koontzy
- 45. This Englishman, Not Gone
- 46. A Fine Summer Day
- 47. No Quaker Nonsense
- 48. Oh, Do Get Up
- 49. Repent
- 50. Don’t Be a Tit
- Epilogue: November 24th, 1664
- Historical Notes
- Sources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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