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	Podcast:		The John Batchelor Show
	Episode:		1/2: Swashbucling in France; 1/2: Hold Fast: A Novel, by J. H. Gelernter
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:11:19
	Publish Date:		2023-01-16 01:19:11
	Description:		PHOTO: NO KNOWN RESTRICTIONS ON PUBLICATION. 1792 pictured by 1888 @BATCHELORSHOW 1/2: Swashbucling in France; 1/2: Hold Fast: A Novel, by J. H. Gelernter https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Fast-J-H-Gelernter/dp/0393867048 It’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: become a wealthy man by selling out Britain’s spy network to France. The French take Grey for a disgruntled ex–naval officer, blithely unaware that Grey had lost his wife to an unlucky shot from a French cannon.
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