The river of fire
By: Patrick Easter
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Isis large print; Tom Pascoe -- bk. 2
Publisher: Isis
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780753192276; 9780753192269
Subjects: Fiction; Tom Pascoe (Fictitious character); History
Description: 1799. Captain Tom Pascoe of the Marine Police uncovers a grisly secret: the bodies of two men entombed in the crew cabin of a sunken lugger. Suspicion falls on a third member of the crew seen fleeing the scene. Against the backdrop of a nation at war with Napoleon, Pascoe uncovers the existence of French agents in London who'll stop at nothing to undermine England's position, and finds his own life under threat as he digs deeper into the case ...
Notes: Adult.