Courtney 10 - Monsoon by Wilbur Smith

Author:Wilbur Smith [Smith, Wilbur]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780312971540
Published: 2000-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

"I am the eldest son of Sir Henry Courtney. I wish to be taken to my father immediately." As soon as he heard the name, one of the secretaries came hurrying forward. In the last few days the name of Courtney had taken the city by storm.

Every news-sheet had carried pages of print concerning the exploits of Sir Henry Courtney in the Ocean of the Indies. Some were wildly fanciful, yet as an item of gossip he had supplanted the news of the latest English victory in France, and his name was bandied about every tavern and fashionable gathering in London. To add to the excitement, broad sheets handed out in the street advertised the forthcoming auction sale of the cargo and the prizes at the premises of John Company in Leadenhall Street, describing them as "The Greatest Treasures ever taken from an Enemy on the High Seas!" Within days of the squadron's arrival, shares in "The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies', which was the full and ringing title of John Company, increased in value by over 15 per cent. Over the past five years the Company had paid an annual dividend of 25 per cent, but anticipation of the distribution of this vast treasure drove the shares to unheard-of heights.

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