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Act of Oblivion / Robert Harris.
Follows General Edward Whalley's and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe's flight to America in 1660 after their involvement in the beheading of King Charles I.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735282124 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xv, 463 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2022.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. |
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From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen, charged in the killing of King Charles I, by the implacable foe on their trailâan epic journey into the wilds of seventeenth-century New England, and a chase like no other.
"From what is it they run?"
He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, âThey killed the King.â
1660. General Edward Whalley and his son-in-law Colonel William Goffe board a ship in London bound for the New World and an uncertain future in exile. They are wanted for the 1649 murder of King Charles I â a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But ten years after Charlesâ beheading, the royalists returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the ?fty-nine men who signed the kingâs death warrant have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. Some parliamentarians, including Oliver Cromwell, are dead; others have been captured, hung, drawn, and quartered. A few are imprisoned for life. But Whalley and Goffe escaped to New England. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors back home to justice and will stop at nothing to ?nd them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture â dead or alive. Encompassing a period of tremendous upheaval in English history the novel brings alive pivotal moments including the Black Death and the Great Fire of London as Nayler closes in on the exiles. Act of Oblivion is an epic story of religion, vengeance, and of power â and the costs to those who wield it.
