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Colonel James Colt, legendary entrepreneur, has decided to expand his weapons business from the US into England. In an old factory in Pimlico he starts creating the first mass-produced patent revolvers on a grand scale. But for full commercial success he needs the British political contacts and wars to use the guns - and he will create them if he needs to.
So the scene is set for a tense story of enterprise and violence, idealism and betrayal, set in mid-nineteenth-century London, with plenty of issues that are still relevant today.
At the heart of this novel lie those who work in Colt′s factory, on every level. Some, hard-bitten veterans, have come with Colt from America, full of stories from the West and from the Mexican wars. It is they who recruit and train the largely British workforce - and the relationships between them are strained, particularly when some of the Americans lure the English girls to their rooms. But the working of the factory becomes much more endangered by running brawls between Colts and the rival English factories, by the theft of the weapons by those working for the Irish patriots, and by the attempts of the strong radical elements in London, objecting to both the gun-making and the American treatment of the workers, to sabotage the production lines.
A young lawyer, Andrew Lowry, finds himself torn between his enjoyment of his success as Colt′s right-hand man and his growing distaste for the weapons trade and the way that Colt makes it work.
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The Devil's Acre
What price to take hold of the devil′s right hand? Spring, 1853. After a triumphant display at the Great Exhibition in London, the legendary American entrepreneur and inventor Colonel Samuel Colt expands his gun-making business into England. He acquires a riverside warehouse in...
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The Street Philosopher
Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier′s man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the tutelage of his hard-bitten Irish boss...
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The passing of the Hungarian prime minister before he could realize his dream of a fascist state has little effect on crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon. Life—and death—go on in the bustling old city, and a late-night tip soon leads him to a crime scene where a young woman lies dead, a...
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With another failed business behind her, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is cooking up a new scheme: Pairing up her best friend Connie with a handsome professional football player who just happens to be related to the owner of her favorite Italian restaurant. Soon Connie takes more interest in a...
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Cook's Night Out
By Joanne Pence
Foodie Angie Amalfi has decided to make her culinary name by creating the perfect chocolate confection: angelinas. Donating her delicious rejects to the Random Acts of Kindness Mission in San Francisco, Angie meets the jittery minister in charge. Soon she volunteers to help organize their first...
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