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Description for Sea Change
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is offered a discharge of his debts by his principal creditor, Sir Theodore Janssen, a director of the South Sea Company, on one condition: he must secretly convey an important package to a friend of Janssen's, Ysbrand de Vries, in Amsterdam. The package safely delivered, Spandrel barely survives an attempt on his life, only to be blamed for the murder of de Vries himself. When de Vries's secretary, his English ... Read more
It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is offered a discharge of his debts by his principal creditor, Sir Theodore Janssen, a director of the South Sea Company, on one condition: he must secretly convey an important package to a friend of Janssen's, Ysbrand de Vries, in Amsterdam. The package safely delivered, Spandrel barely survives an attempt on his life, only to be blamed for the murder of de Vries himself. When de Vries's secretary, his English ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552146029
SKU
KAK0010166
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire and read History at Cambridge. His first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award and was dramatized for TV, starring ... Read more
Reviews for Sea Change
"'There is more adventure and less mystery in this than in some of Goddard's other books, but the result is engrossing, storytelling of a very high order'" Observer