The judge hunter

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Label

The judge hunter

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Buckley

Creator

• Buckley, Christopher
• trueBuckley, Christopher, 1952-

Subject

• true1660s -- 1660 -- 1669
• true17th century -- 1601 -- 1700
• Action and adventure fiction
• trueBoston, Massachusetts
• trueCharles, I, King of England, 1600-1649
• trueCharles, II, King of England, 1630-1685
• trueColonial America (1600-1775) -- 1600 -- 1775
• trueExecutions and executioners
• Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueIndians of North America -- Wars
• trueJudges
• truePuritans
• trueRegicide
• trueTracking and trailing
• Transatlantic voyages -- Fiction
• United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
• Voyages and travels -- Fiction
• trueMissing persons investigation
• Ocean travel -- Fiction
• truePepys, Samuel, 1633-1703

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• Action and adventure fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--Amazon.com

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueUpbeat
• trueIrreverent
• trueDramatic

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueRichly detailed
• trueWitty

Cataloging source

BT

Dewey number

813/.54

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult