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Book - The Judge Hunter: A Novel by Christopher Buckley - Hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject
- Action / Adventure
- Type
- Novel
- Title
- The Judge Hunter
- Region
- World/International
- Country
- USA
- Special Attributes
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781501192517
- Book Title
- Judge Hunter
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Action & Adventure, Historical, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a king. 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. Christopher Buckley's enchanting new novel spins adventure, comedy, political intrigue, and romance against a historical backdrop with real-life characters like Charles II, John Winthrop, and Peter Stuyvesant. Buckley's wit is as sharp as ever as he takes readers to seventeenth-century London and New England. We visit the bawdy court of Charles II, Boston under the strict Puritan rule, and New Amsterdam back when Manhattan was a half-wild outpost on the edge of an unmapped continent. The Judge Hunter is a smart and swiftly plotted novel that transports readers to a new world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1501192515
ISBN-13
9781501192517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239740001
Product Key Features
Book Title
Judge Hunter
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Action & Adventure, Historical, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.U3394j83 2018
Reviews
Wildly Satisfying and Funny... the Judge Hunter Is a Satisfying Romp Through America in the 1600s., Buckley ( The Relic Master ) has turned his quick wit and sharp writing focus on the 17th century in this 2nd book in his historical fiction series....Peppered with historical characters--Peter Stuyvesant, John Winthrop II--and cleverly using Samuel Pepys' famous diaries, Buckley masterfully weaves a fictional story with historical fact....a rich story ripe for Buckley's humor and pointed satire on Puritan ideals, royal peccadillos, and political intrigue. The Judge Hunter is an absorbing mystery/thriller with humorous dialog and characters that resonate and draw in the reader. Buckley's ability to fuse fact with fiction makes this book a must for not just fans of historical fiction but anyone looking for a great read., [Buckley is] a roaringly funny writer of polished comic novels. It is no exaggeration to say that, today, he is one of the best American writers working the genre. [He], as always, has delivered a clever literary entertainment that manages to be both warm and wry., Buckley's wry wit is on display throughout....the characters and events of the period covered in The Judge Hunter offer a trove of material. While it's handled lightly, like any good historical fiction the book sparks the reader's interest in learning more about the events and people it touches on. Carefully researched and constructed with a wealth of authentic details, the novel succeeds in making a sometimes distant and stodgy-seeming era feel somehow contemporary., A wry, witty, enjoyable romp. Buckley knows how to turn a phrase. Recommended for fans of George MacDonald Fraser and those who prefer some P.G. Wodehouse in their Bernard Cornwell....With an almost British, Monty Python -esque dryness, Buckley traipses through the American Colonies and skewers the foibles of the inhabitants....Buckley cleverly weaves his story line with historical threads taken from Pepys diaries and other notes from the Colonial period., Christopher Buckley's style of satire has a peculiar bite: It nibbles, nibbles, nibbles--gently, even delightfully--before chomping down and leaving teeth marks as distinctive as any known to forensic science.... The Judge Hunter is a brisk adventure....Buckley's signature wordplay transposes well to 17th-century England and America, and anyone familiar with the real Pepys will take special pleasure in Buckley's pitch-perfect fictional diary entries for him....the point of the thing is in the adventure and in the glimpses of a past that is distant but familiar, not only because of the names that still resonate three centuries on but because all the manners of stupidity and greed, intrigue and intrepidity he describes are still very much with us today., An entertaining and nicely crafted picaresque thriller with crackling dialogue and a brace of Colonial cops as appealingly mismatched as any of Hollywood's buddy efforts., [A] rollicking, raucous, murderous, deliciously funny historical novel....a marvelously suspenseful yarn....Buckley has a giddy time amid history and histrionics. The book's a rush and a sheer delight, swift and scandalous, salty and sagacious, savvy and silly. And eminently enjoyable., A wry, witty, enjoyable romp....With an almost British, Monty Python -esque dryness, Buckley traipses through the American Colonies and skewers the foibles of the inhabitants....Buckley cleverly weaves his story line with historical threads taken from Pepys diaries and other notes from the Colonial period., The Judge Hunter is a captivating and witty new novel that combines adventure, comedy, political intrigue, and romance around real-life historical characters....Buckley has a razor-sharp wit....[a] brilliantly plotted historical novel that is extraordinarily entertaining. You will not stop laughing as you read it., In these days of nasty name-calling passing as humor there is thankfully one true practitioner of the literary art of satire still standing, and Christopher Buckley's second historical novel proves it. The Judge Hunter is full of humor that skewers historical figures in all their self-serving political ambitions....Buckley's humorous satire...is both revealing of painful truths and the timelessness of bad human behavior., Wildly satisfying and funny....Buckley's genius in building his narrative around Balty is that the history books are rather sparse on details of Balthasar de St. Michel...which makes him the perfect foil for Buckley's wit.... The Judge Hunter is a satisfying romp through America in the 1600s and leaves the reader sensing the ripeness of what Buckley might be able to do with the 1700s...
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2018-289054
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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