Bibliograph

Type

Label

Act of oblivion, a novel, Robert Harris

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 462-463)

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Act of oblivion

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1292063754

Responsibility statement

Robert Harris

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king's death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. Some of the Roundheads, including Oliver Cromwell, are already dead. Others have been captured, hung, drawn, and quartered. A few are imprisoned for life. But two have escaped to America by boat. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture--dead or alive..."--Dust jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Author's note -- Dramatis personae -- Part one: Hunt 1660 -- Part two: Chase 1661 -- Part three: Hide 1662 -- Part four: Kill 1674

Target audience

adult

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