EAN: 9781509880799

BLOOD & SUGAR - LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON TASCHEN...

'A searing  ingeniously constructed story' The Times June  1781. An unidentified body hangs
upon a hook at Deptford Dock - horribly tortured and branded with a slaver's mark. Some days
later  Captain Harry Corsham - a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career - is
visited by the sister of an old friend. Her brother  passionate abolitionist Tad Archer  had
been about to expose a secret that he believed could cause irreparable damage to the British
slaving industry. He'd said people were trying to kill him  and now he is missing . . . To
uncover what happened to Tad  Harry is forced to pick up the threads of his investigation 
delving into the heart of the conspiracy Tad had unearthed. But by doing so he risks
threatening his political prospects and his family's happiness  and exposing secrets from his
past that have the power to destroy him. And that is only if he can survive the mortal dangers
awaiting him in Deptford . . . 'This is a world conveyed with convincing  terrible clarity' C.
J. Sansom 'Addictive. I read it flat out in one day' C. J. Tudor

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