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    Spies and Subterfuge

    By Christopher Hoare

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    The Thrilling Sequel to Steam and Stratagem!

    The Mission to Locate Napoleon’s Steamships Continues...

    Having successfully negotiated steamship contracts with Their Lordships of the Admiralty, Roberta Stephenson, steamship engineer, must now aid her country with intelligence gathering. No-one has glimpsed Napoleon’s steam-powered pyroscaphes, and there are disquieting rumours of a steam battleship—one even larger than Roberta’s Spiteful.

    As Commander Worthington patrols the coast of England aboard the Spiteful, Roberta sneaks into Antwerp with Lord Bond. With stolen American passports and assistance from the Dutch Resistance, their success seems assured.

    The mission, however, quickly unravels. Symington Holmes and Captain McNab disappear, Lord Bond’s false identity is compromised, and Fouché, Napoleon’s spymaster, takes an interest in the group.

    Roberta must keep her wits about her because the success of the mission—and of the War—depends on her and her ability to fool one more person...Napoleon himself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyche Books Ltd.
    Release dateNov 26, 2014
    ISBN9781928025153
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    Spies and Subterfuge
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    Christopher Hoare

    I am retired and live with my wife, Shirley, and the shelter dog Emmie, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, writing fiction and working with others on their fiction, as much as life allows. As a lad I lived, breathed, and dreamed aeroplanes; I won a place at RAE Farnborough learning to engineer them. But the reality didn’t fit my dream, so I took off into a stint in the army and then away to join the oil circus. Flying objects are tools when they now appear in my writing―I guess that’s the effect of maturity, but I hope, not a constricted, resigned, and unimaginative maturity. The mind still soars, even without wings, and the dream of carrying others to a better future is now on the page.Some readers comment that none of my stories take place next door to the lives most people live; the less charitable find similarity in characters who tend to be stubborn, independent, and out of step with the world’s expectations. Perhaps there’s a connection between the worlds I portray in fiction, and my working life in oil exploration in the Libyan Desert, the Canadian Arctic, and the mountains and forests of Western Canada.My stories have been set in Regency England, Anglo-Saxon Britain, in modern industrial projects, in the alternate world of Gaia, and the fantasy world of Rast. Sometimes I satirize jobs I’ve done. Many of my central characters are smart, beautiful, and dangerous women who lead unwilling males to fulfil the duties before them. Lt. Gisel Matah in “Deadly Enterprise” is perhaps the most Bond-like of these. I like writing novels about realities my readers can enjoy in the guise of dashing adventurers; loyal comrades; lovers; or pledged sovereigns. I hope they find there the spark that brings them to realize greater dreams of their own.

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