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02131aam a2200325 i 4500 001 9D165770E3CB11ECB2E80CFF26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220604010019 008 210806s2022 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021038218 020 $a 0393867064 020 $a 9780393867060 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Gelernter, J. H., $e author. 245 10 $a Captain Grey's gambit : $b a novel / $c J.H. Gelernter. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2022] 300 $a 240 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "A taut historical thriller for fans of The Queen's Gambit and James Bond. December 1803: A French invasion fleet is poised to cross the Channel and storm the beaches of southern England. One of Napoleon's top advisors-disaffected by the Corsican's tyranny-contacts the British naval intelligence service in hopes of defecting to London. His escape plan calls for a rendezvous at an international chess tournament in Frankfurt; a rare opportunity for him to travel outside France. Naval intelligence sends itstop man and best chess player, Captain Thomas Grey, to orchestrate the advisor's escape to England. But Grey's mission changes dramatically when the defector demands that his pro-Napoleon daughter come with him-expecting Grey to act not just as escort, but kidnapper. The second novel in J. H Gelernter's already-lauded Thomas Grey series, Captain Grey's Gambit continues a story that is "smart, fast, twisty, and dangerous" (Lee Child) in a "richly imagined early nineteenth-century world" (Richard Snow)"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Intelligance officers $z Great Britain $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Defectors $z France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Chess $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y George III, 1760-1820 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032632.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220615010212.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220604010034.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D165770E3CB11ECB2E80CFF26ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search