British & Irish
epub | | 1989-03-31 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX It was quite true: within two days of being immersed in eastern ways, climate, food, languages, faces, expressions, and forms of civility Fox was a different man, a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1993-04-30 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SEVEN The little girls, stiff with pride and amazement, and fairly soused with holy water, were handed into the carriage after pontifical High Mass in Lima cathedral. They smoothed ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1992-07-31 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

'And so, sir - a trifle of crackling?' 'If you please,' said Jack, holding out his plate. 'How I love roast pork.' 'And so, sir, having left the Franklin astern, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1970-05-07 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER Eight 'I am entirely at a loss, upon my honour; and so I lay the position before you, confiding wholly in your candour.. I am entirely at a loss: ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1984-04-30 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX The Surprise lay moored head and stern in forty fathom water on the north side of the island, in Cumberland Bay, the only sheltered road, and Jack Aubrey ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1986-05-31 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1972-02-07 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER NINE The Polychrest left her convoy in 38° 30' N., ll°W., with the wind at south-west and the Rock of Lisbon bearing S87E., 47 leagues. She fired a gun, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1991-02-28 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-02-28 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX At Durazzo they stood out to sea, leaving the blaze on their larboard quarter and sailing across an uneventful sea with a fine topgallant breeze. But two days ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1979-04-30 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX It was with a feeling not unlike dread that Stephen followed Mrs Wogan into Franchon's hotel. The people behind the desk were talking French and this, together with ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub | | 1977-12-08 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX There were no banquets at the Cape for Jack Aubrey; there were few kind words from the Admiral, either, although the Commodore had brought in all his squadron ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

{ III } Private Robin Mortimer was angry. "This is fucking stupid," he said when they heard the crackle of machine guns. "We should have gone over in the dark. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 1990-07-15 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

Philip was on the roof of the cathedral, and he could see Lincoln laid out like a map. The old city surrounded the cathedral on the hilltop. It had straight ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Herbert, James [Herbert, James]

Accused First her voice, and then her, Midge, standing in the upstairs hallway, the door behind open wide, the greens outside muted by drizzling rain. She was watching me as ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Archer, Jeffrey [Archer, Jeffrey]

Mr. Simon Fletcher 3,586 Major Alexander Fisher 18____” As soon as Giles heard the word eighteen and not nineteen, he felt confident he’d won. “—994.” The Tory camp immediately erupted. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )