The Judge Hunter

  • Author: Christopher Buckley
  • Narrator: James Langton
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 9:43:34
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Synopsis

The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, in which a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a king.

London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar “Balty” St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king’s navy.

Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. He is to track down two missing judges who were responsible for the execution of the last king, Charles I. When Balty’s ship arrives in Boston, he finds a strange country filled with fundamentalist Puritans, saintly Quakers, warring tribes of Indians, and rogues of every stripe. Helped by a man named Huncks, an agent of the Crown with a mysterious past, Balty travels colonial America in search of the missing judges. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Samuel Pepys prepares for a war with the Dutch that fears England has no chance of winning.

Christopher Buckley’s enchanting new novel spins adventure, comedy, political intrigue, and romance against a historical backdrop with real-life characters like Charles II, John Winthrop, and Peter Stuyvesant. Buckley’s wit is as sharp as ever as he takes readers to seventeenth-century London and New England. We visit the bawdy court of Charles II, Boston under the strict Puritan rule, and New Amsterdam back when Manhattan was a half-wild outpost on the edge of an unmapped continent. The Judge Hunter is a smart and swiftly plotted novel that transports readers to a new world.

Chapters

  • TheJudgeHunter 01 Open

    Duration: 22s
  • TheJudgeHunter 02 Dedication

  • TheJudgeHunter 03 Prologue

    Duration: 49s
  • TheJudgeHunter 04 Ch1

    Duration: 11min
  • TheJudgeHunter 05 Ch2

    Duration: 09min
  • TheJudgeHunter 06 Ch3

    Duration: 10min
  • TheJudgeHunter 07 Ch4

    Duration: 01min
  • TheJudgeHunter 08 Ch5

    Duration: 04min
  • TheJudgeHunter 09 Ch6

    Duration: 40s
  • TheJudgeHunter 10 Ch7

    Duration: 18min
  • TheJudgeHunter 11 Ch8

    Duration: 23min
  • TheJudgeHunter 12 Ch9

    Duration: 11min
  • TheJudgeHunter 13 Ch10

    Duration: 25min
  • TheJudgeHunter 14 Ch11

    Duration: 05min
  • TheJudgeHunter 15 Ch12

    Duration: 10min
  • TheJudgeHunter 16 Ch13

    Duration: 10min
  • TheJudgeHunter 17 Ch14

    Duration: 18min
  • TheJudgeHunter 18 Ch15

    Duration: 13min
  • TheJudgeHunter 19 Ch16

    Duration: 13min
  • TheJudgeHunter 20 Ch17

    Duration: 24min
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