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Wilder Perkins - "Hoare and the Matter of Treason"
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"You're the Admial's deus ex machina, then. His Hercules. The man he uses to drag his chestnuts out of the fire. Good record at sea, respectable naval family, no voice. Pity about that. You look as otherwise fit for command. But the fleet's loss to the Service's gain. Perhaps."

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Sir Hugh Aberecrombie very nearly sums up Bartholomew Hoare's odd position in King George III's Royal Navy. Because a throat Injury suffered in the service of the Crown in the war with France has left Hoare fit to do no more than whisper, he is unable to command a ship. To a man raised in a
navy family, this is a tragedy. But Hoares quick brain and extraordinary' perspicacity have so impressed his superiors that he has been entrusted not only with the smallest ship and the oddest crew in the Royal Navy, but with state and military duties of great secrecy

As this book opens, Hoares wedding to the impressive young widow Mrs. Eleanor Graves is taking place, The Royal Duke, Hoare's little ship. has been spruced up for the occasion, the brass polished and the carier pigeons that share Hoare's cabin hidden behind a curtain. But after the bride, attended by her friend Miss Jane Austen, ends the festivities by giving the order "Splice the main brace," Hoares commanding ofhccr, Sir George Hardcastte, informs the new groom that he is report to London and the head of the fleet as soon us possible for a special assignment.

Initially, Hoare learns, his job is to find a missing man who has information about a conspiracy against the Crown, but the discovery of tth fellow's body is only the beginning of a long task. Eleanor not a woman easily daunted, surprises Hoare by appearing in London with the waif they are planning to adopt and setting up house in the outskirts. As Hoare pursues a variety of odd characters who might lead to the conspirators, peril closes in. There is an assasination and a growing danger not only to Hoare himself but to his associates, his servants, and even his new wife and even their child.

Readers who have grown fond of the quirky, determined, and unusual naval officer and the picture of the seagoing military in King George's day will be saddened to learn that this is the last in the series. The author, Wilder Perkins, died in 1999 just after finishing Hoare and the Matter of Treason.

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