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Act of Oblivion audiobook
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrator: Tim McInnerny
- Category: Fiction, Historical, Thrillers
- Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 13, 2022
- Language: English
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Act of Oblivion Audiobook Summary
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail–an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, and a chase like no other.
‘From what is it they flee?’
He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, “They killed the King.”
1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I–a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control.
But now, ten years after Charles’ beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king’s death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. Some of the Roundheads, including Oliver Cromwell, are already dead. Others have been captured, hung, drawn, and quartered. A few are imprisoned for life. But two have escaped to America by boat.
In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture–dead or alive. . . .
Robert Harris’s first historical novel set predominantly in America, Act of Oblivion is a novel with an urgent narrative, remarkable characters, and an epic true story to tell of religion, vengeance, and power–and the costs to those who wield it.
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Act of Oblivion Audiobook Narrator
Tim McInnerny is the narrator of Act of Oblivion audiobook that was written by Robert Harris
Robert Harris is the award-winning author of fourteen internationally bestselling novels, including Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost Writer, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep, and V2, as well as his trilogy of novels about the Roman statesman Cicero Imperium, Conspirata and Dictator. His novels have been translated into 40 languages, and seven have been adapted for the screen, including most recently Munich, a Netflix feature film starring Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain. Harris earned a degree in English from Cambridge University; before becoming a full-time novelist he worked as a reporter for the BBC, was political editor of the Observer, and a columnist for the London Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. He is married to the writer Gill Hornby and lives in England; they have four children.
About the Author(s) of Act of Oblivion
Robert Harris is the author of Act of Oblivion
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Act of Oblivion Full Details
| Narrator | Tim McInnerny |
| Length | 15 hours 41 minutes |
| Author | Robert Harris |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | September 13, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9780063248038 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Act of Oblivion is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical, Thrillers
Additional info
The publisher of the Act of Oblivion is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063248038.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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