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  • The King's Beast

  • A Mystery of Colonial America
  • By: Eliot Pattison
  • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
  • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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The King's Beast

By: Eliot Pattison
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
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Publisher's summary

A simple task to retrieve some artifacts turns into a nightmare of deceit when Duncan McCallum finds himself the target of those obsessed with keeping America under British rule in this thrilling historical novel from an Edgar Award-winning author.

When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without explaining why, that the only way to keep the king from pursuing a bloody war with America is for Duncan to secretly deliver the fossils to Franklin in London.

His journey becomes a maze of deceit and violence as he seeks the cryptic link between the bones and the king. Every layer that Duncan peels away invites new treachery by those obsessed with crushing American dissent. With each attempt on his life, Duncan questions the meaning of the liberty he and the Sons seek. His last desperate hope for survival, and the rescue of his aged native friend Conawago - imprisoned in Bedlam - requires the help of freed slaves, an aristocratic maiden, a band of street urchins, and the gods of his tribal allies.

©2021 Eliot Pattison (P)2021 Scribd Audio
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