The Silver Hearted
- Title
- The Silver Hearted
- Author
- McConnell, David
- Description
- Set against a background of revolution and profiteering in an unnamed port town, an ex-wastrel is hired to look after a vast sum of money by a cabal of shadowy investors. Literally chests of silver coins, this fortune must be protected at all costs. For assistance, the newly-hired guardian turns to a sailor, a naïf, beautiful and young, who helps evacuate the money when the trading emporium is overrun by violent mobs. In a hopeless confusion of fondness and morals, the boy wants acknowledgement that lives have been destroyed for the sake of money. Unfortunately, a ruthless calculus of profit and loss has mesmerized the hero. Warfare is closing in. Again, he has to get the fortune out of a city offering only temporary and uneasy shelter.
- Genre
- Sea Stories
- Edition
- First
- Publication Date
- 2009
- Page Count
- 213
- Tags/Themes
- sailors
- fiction
- colonial
- near future
- treasure
- mlm
- Publisher
- Alyson Books
- Record Creator
- Taylor Dykes
- ISBN
- 978-1-59350-140-2
- Media
- The Silver Hearted
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