Third Class Convict (ePub)
Bookish Wyatt Faulkner is wounded whilst saving Chartist supporter Amy from sailing into a trap as she delivers weapons for the uprising. Wyatt is taken for treason but his head injury means loss of memory as well as loss of...
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1848, the year of revolution.
Bookish Wyatt Faulkner is wounded whilst saving Chartist supporter Amy from sailing into a trap as she delivers weapons for the uprising. Wyatt is taken for treason but his head injury means loss of memory as well as loss of freedom. He begins life anew as a THIRD CLASS CONVICT on the Woolwich hulks.
Amy cannot leave him to rot on the prison ship, but she is unaware that others plan to cut his sentence short permanently .A foiled Irish escaper, and a killer sent to protect police informer Conrad Sperling's identity make Wyatt's hard new life even harder.
And then there is the cholera.
His father was in the RAF (as was his Sergeant Mum during the war) which meant that every so often the family moved on. He was therefore very nearly educated at a lot of schools; two weeks and three days at one lucky establishment. He did eventually learn to wield a pen, but mostly for activities other than writing.
As all his forebears, he entered the Armed Forces. Three grandparents in the Army, both parents in the RAF, so he joined the RN. (Historical note: Great uncle George Rowe survived the Titanic and surprisingly he wasn't to blame. He was ex-RN.)
The RN was extremely educational. Mike learned how to get blisters on his feet from marching and tabbing across Dartmoor, the Brecon Beacons, and a variety of parade grounds; and on his hands from sawing, chipping and filing cast iron and lumps of steel. He was professionally sick in the Atlantic, the North Sea, and up in the ice during the contretemps with Icelandic fishermen. And, because he was young he wasn't too well in a couple of ports like Hamburg and Amsterdam - water wasn't involved.
He left the Navy, tried as many jobs as possible to see what made the world work, and sold a few pathetic stories.
After four years servicing the Sultan of Oman's Navy and ten years trying to keep some of the Royal Army of Oman's radio equipment going he had a BA(Hons) and an MBA and sold about fifty stories.
- Autor: Mike O'donnell
- 2013, Englisch
- Verlag: Mike O'Donnell
- ISBN-10: 8215497160
- ISBN-13: 9798215497166
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2013
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