
East Indiaman
East Indiaman Saga, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Alan Medcroft
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By:
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Griff Hosker
"When a man escapes alive, he has a chance to survive."
In the unforgiving docklands of east London, young orphan William must do all he can to survive. Like the other ‘wharf rats’, his life of petty crime is not a choice; it’s a necessity. But William’s misdeeds won’t remain hidden for long. When the boy unknowingly steals from a murderous pirate captain, escape is his only option. He is forced to stow away and begin a life that will take him to the far side of the world; a life as a soldier of the East India Company.
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Also, Hosker paints an accurate picture of the past and doesn't disregard the brutal reality, but without the woke guilt trips that ruin a story.
The narrator was brilliant.
My only complaint is that it was too short.
Most enjoyable
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A story ended to soon!
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Great performance and Story
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This novel, set around 1799, is so full of holes and implausibility that the reader’s earbuds dislodge from all the eye rolls invoked by the intersections between serendipity and “my good fortune.” This character gets everything handed to him, including a horse as a private soldier (never happened, ever).
This novel is a very bad start to a series that appears to be a pulp fiction rewrite of Bernard Cornwell’s amazing Richard Sharpe series. It even puts a similar British street urchin in the role of antagonizing the Tipu Sultan,
Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799,
I do not recommend this book. Read Sharp’s Tiger instead and then spend the next year losing sleep with the fantastic Richard Sharpe sequels.
Master of the Insta-Warrior
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Story had a lot of potential.
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