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Chains of Albion (Hardcover)

by Edwin Thomas (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 302 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press; First Edition edition (1 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0593050657
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593050651
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 654,595 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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" At last the nautical Flashman! Martin Jerrold looks set to become one of the great British anti-heroes, boozing and lusting his way through Regency England."
-- Andrew Roberts


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July, 1806. Commanding a prison-hulk in the Medway guarding French captives, Martin Jerrold thinks his war can't get much better. He's far away from storm, battle and the other disagreeable elements of naval life, and he can keep his mistress, Isobel, close at hand; in fact, his most arduous duty is reining in the zealous Francophobia of his deputy. It seems too good to last, and so it proves. When one of the prisoners, goes missing, Jerrold's comfortable world is turned upside-down. Summoned to London, he is ordered by the First Lord of the Admiralty to recapture the Frenchman at any cost. Jerrold does not know it, but his pursuit will take him clear across England: from the slums of London to the stinking marshes of Chatham; from the wilds of Dartmoor to the newly fashionable seaside resort of Brighton. But who is this mysterious french man? At the Post Office, Jerrold's old friend, Mr Nevell, is curious; so too are politicians from the highest levels of the Whig government; as is the Tory opposition led by the cunning Spencer Percival. Even the seductive Princess Caroline takes an unexpected interest. As Jerrold - with his usual mix of bad timing, bad luck and bad behaviour - closes on his quarry, he begins to uncover an extraordinary tangle of deceit and treachery stretching back over twenty years, which reaches to the most exalted levels of society on both sides of the Channel. And which some men will stop at nothing to protect.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars NOT the nautical flashman, but still very good., 26 Jul 2004
By Peter Symonds "petersym" - See all my reviews
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"Chains of Albion" is the 2nd Martin Jerrold adventure & is set 3 months after "The Blighted Cliffs". Having saved England from smugglers & a French invasion, Jerrold is "rewarded" by being given command of a prison hulk moored in the Medway. Almost as soon as he arrives one his prisoners escapes- dressed as Jerrold's mistress! As if this wasn't bad enough it turns out that the prisoner has some "papers" which could prove very damaging for the government. Martin is instantly relieved of duty. His only chance of avoiding yet another disgrace is too find the missing Frenchman fast. Needless to say the plot gets even more complicated as the story progresses. Whatever the prisoners secret is it intimately involves the Prince Regent (future George IV), and the Prince's lackey's want to hush up the whole affair by getting rid of the witnesses.....including Lieutenant Jerrold!

Whoever decribed these books as being "the next Flashman" did the author a great dis-service. Jerrold has very little of Flashman's sheer shameless cowardice. In reality he's just very unlucky. Jerrold passes up the chance to cheat on his mistress twice & refuses to shoot someone in the back- two things Flashy would never pass up! The books lack the depth, research & sheer class of the Flashman series- if you think you're going to get something to equal George MacDonald Fraser you'll be disapointed. This should not be held against the author as the Martin Jerrold adventures are actually very good books and deserve to be far better known. The depth of historical research is as good as Sharpe, the decriptions of Regency England are very atmospheric, but perhaps lack the real sense of oppresive danger that pervaded the "rookeries" of London. The "hero" is a great character... being neither as shameless as Flashman, nor as superhuman as Sharpe makes him very likeable indeed.

"The Chains of Albion" starts slowly, but builds to a truly exciting conclusion. Without spoling the plot, the prisoners "secret" is quite amazing... the fact that one of his "papers" still survives in the Royal archive at Windsor suggests that some of the plot is actually true and the implications of THAT are quite startling!

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