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| Publisher | Random House Trade |
| ISBN 13 | 9780812988925 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812988922 |
| Book Description | Two empires battle each other; war, slavery, contraband; strategic power and control in the Caribbean; a war that is fought on the high seas. After the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, English merchants had a monopoly in the supply of black slaves to the Spanish colonies in South America. One day, Jenkins, a smuggler who called himself a merchant, revolts against the control of the Spanish coastguards in Caribbean waters and the Spanish captain cuts his left ear off without any trepidation. Jenkins hastily returned to London to bare proof of such an insult. For the English court, the severed ear of the captain of one of its ships, becomes reason enough to send an immense brigade of ships and unleash a war in the Caribbean. In one of the British ships, Tobias Smollett, a young doctor, joins in the search for the long-sought-after treasure of emeralds that his Empire was coveting. |
| About the Author | Gisbert Haefs (Niederrhein, 1950) is a German writer of detective and historical novels. He studied English and Spanish philology at the University of Bonn. He later worked as a freelance translator of literature in Spanish, French and English, pouring into German authors such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton, Georges Brassens or Mark Twain. In 2004, Haefs translated all of Bob Dylan's songs. From Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce and Jorge Luis Borges, he was not only a translator but also an editor of his complete works in the German language. Some of his extraordinary historical novels are Hannibal, Alexander and Troy. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Graham Moore |
| Publication Date | 23-May-17 |
| Number of Pages | 384 |
The Last Days of Night paperback english - 23-May-17
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