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 41 Ch38

    Duration: 38min
  • TheJudgeHunter 42 Ch39

    Duration: 02min
  • TheJudgeHunter 43 Ch40

    Duration: 09min
  • TheJudgeHunter 44 Ch41

    Duration: 12min
  • TheJudgeHunter 45 Ch42

    Duration: 11min
  • TheJudgeHunter 46 Ch43

    Duration: 09min
  • TheJudgeHunter 47 Ch44

    Duration: 07min
  • TheJudgeHunter 48 Ch45

    Duration: 05min
  • TheJudgeHunter 49 Ch46

    Duration: 10min
  • TheJudgeHunter 50 Ch47

    Duration: 08min
  • TheJudgeHunter 51 Ch48

    Duration: 12min
  • TheJudgeHunter 52 Ch49

    Duration: 18min
  • TheJudgeHunter 53 Ch50

    Duration: 05min
  • TheJudgeHunter 54 Epilogue

    Duration: 01min
  • TheJudgeHunter 55 HistoricalNotes

    Duration: 08min
  • TheJudgeHunter 56 Credits

    Duration: 42s
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