Act of Oblivion

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Call Number: Fiction / Harris, Robert, Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Harris, Robert
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Harris, Robert	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024
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"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...." -- Amazon.

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Disapointing submitted by emroon on July 8, 2023, 10:42am I was very excited about this book. A murder mystery in colonial America with two men on the run for killing the King? What's not to love? This is the kind of book that I love. However, this book was SO boring. Over and over, the two men on the run arrived at a safe house, they stayed and hid or blended in, then people started to catch on, so they moved on again, and arrived at another safe house and the process repeated over and over until the most anti-climactic ending ever which I won't spoil for you, but it was disappointing. It gets two stars, because at least the premise was a good idea, but the execution was poor.