Treachery
Written by Julian Stockwin
Narrated by Christian Rodska
4/5
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About this audiobook
After offending an Admiral, Kydd is sent to guard the Channel Islands. When he is brutally betrayed, only his old friend Renzi is willing to stick by him. Then Kydd is given an opportunity to return to the sea as Captain of a privateer. But privateers are hated by the French and the Royal Navy alike. To keep fighting his country's battle he must prowl the Atlantic, a lone wolf of the seas.
Julian Stockwin
Julian Stockwin is the internationally bestselling author of Kydd, Artemis, Seaflower, and Mutiny, the first four novels in the Kydd adventure series. Having joined the Royal Navy at age fifteen, he retired from the Royal Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander and was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE). He and his wife live in Devon, England. Visit the author's website at JulianStockwin.com.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A ripping yarn! Set in Elizabethan England amidst Sir Francis Drake's fleet, Giordano Bruno investigates whodunnit.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The fascinating and captivating saga continues with treachery, poverty, triumph and redemption, complete with actors, kindness, humor, terrible sorrow and triumph. There’s even a girl sailor along for a bit.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm no expert on crime thrillers, or historical fiction either. I am a fan of Bruno and early modern Europe. This book is a grand fun way to bask in the flavor of those days. Parris does a really nice job of crafting a crime story that fits in nicely with Bruno's situation. It's a real page turner - I read it in two days. I've read the previous books in the series. There are many references back to the earlier books. The plot itself is really independent of those previous books, but I think this'd be a less fun read not to have read those.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elizabethan conundrums!Caught up with intrigue, the Spanish question, the French and English monarchs, and his own troubles Italian "defrocked monk, excommunicated for heresy," and now spy, Giordano Bruno accompanies his friend Sir Philip Sidney, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth's to Plymouth where Sir Francis Drake's fleet is readying to set sail for the Spanish Main. It's 1585 and Drake is on the eve of departure. Ostensibly Sir Philip is to escort Dom Antonio, the pretender to the Portuguese throne, back to Elizabeth's court. In reality Sir Philip has decided to go against the Queen's wishes and join Drake on his great adventure.That great voyage though has been brought to a halt. A man, "Master Robert Dunne, a gentleman of Devon," has apparently suicided on Drake's galleon. On closer inspection it appears that the suicide is actually a murder. A lose-lose situation for Drake. Sailors being a superstitious group will see the voyage as cursed before its begun, murder though will have men on a long voyage even more skittish, either decamping now or turning on each other on the endless voyage. Drake cannot afford to have his quandary bruited abroad. He cannot sail until the truth is known. And this is where Sir Philip decides to volunteer Bruno's expertise. Until recently Bruno's's been acting as a spy for Walsingham and the Privy Council whilst part of the French Ambassador Châteauneuf's cohort in London. At the moment his future is in doubt. Volunteered by Sir Philip, Bruno finds himself mired in plots and counterplots, including murder and stolen artifacts, not the least of which pertains to a forbidden religious book supposedly written by Judas Iscariot and stolen from the Vatican. Vatican agents will stop at nothing to retrieve this heretical work. Bruno becomes at once exhilarated and dismayed as he pursues his investigations.The relationship between Philip and Bruno is interesting. Part comradeship, part benefactor, part older brother. I swerve between admiring their relationship and wondering why Bruno doesn't depart Sir Sidney's side. Parris admirably captures the complexities and fears abroad during these times, painting a colorful picture of Elizabethan life.A Pegasus Books ARC via NetGalley
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent, really enjoying this series
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The fourth novel in this series of murder mysteries featuring Italian renegade Giordano Bruno, in exile from the Inquisition in 1580s England. My feelings about it are really the same as for the first three. Again, it is intricately plotted, with good use of false suspects throughout the novel, and Bruno is an interesting and appealing central figure, though I still find his role as a sleuth a little implausible. The plot this time centres around the discovery of a Gnostic gospel and the inevitable Catholic plot involving the threat of Spanish invasion in the years running up to the Armada. Sir Francis Drake is well portrayed, and there are also some attractive and/or interesting minor characters such as Sam and Hetty, who add depth to the novel's environment and sense of historical authenticity. Very good stuff.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the fourth book in the S.J.Parris historical series,featuring Giordano Bruno. Bruno is a heretic who has fled to England and become a spy for Francis Walsingham. The present volume brings us to Plymouth where Bruno and his friend Sir Philip Sidney become involved with Treachery among Drake's fleet.It becomes their task to uncover a plot which could lead the whole fleet into a Spanish trap. In addition there are murders and more to contend with.