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 21 Ch18

    Duration: 06min
  • TheJudgeHunter 22 Ch19

    Duration: 20min
  • TheJudgeHunter 23 Ch20

    Duration: 02min
  • TheJudgeHunter 24 Ch21

    Duration: 12min
  • TheJudgeHunter 25 Ch22

    Duration: 10min
  • TheJudgeHunter 26 Ch23

    Duration: 04min
  • TheJudgeHunter 27 Ch24

    Duration: 11min
  • TheJudgeHunter 28 Ch25

    Duration: 05min
  • TheJudgeHunter 29 Ch26

    Duration: 01min
  • TheJudgeHunter 30 Ch27

    Duration: 09min
  • TheJudgeHunter 31 Ch28

    Duration: 10min
  • TheJudgeHunter 32 Ch29

    Duration: 14min
  • TheJudgeHunter 33 Ch30

    Duration: 09min
  • TheJudgeHunter 34 Ch31

    Duration: 03min
  • TheJudgeHunter 35 Ch32

    Duration: 10min
  • TheJudgeHunter 36 Ch33

    Duration: 16min
  • TheJudgeHunter 37 Ch34

    Duration: 04min
  • TheJudgeHunter 38 Ch35

    Duration: 22min
  • TheJudgeHunter 39 Ch36

    Duration: 03min
  • TheJudgeHunter 40 Ch37

    Duration: 25min
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