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The Confusion

By Neal Stephenson

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| Paperback | 9780099410690

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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth eContinue

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.

Meanwhile, back in Europe ...

The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child.

While ...

Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.

Critics

  • Yo-yos in a tangle

    The Confusion by Neal Stephenson 624pp, Heinemann, £16.99 Five years ago, Neal Stephenson published Cryptonomicon , a novel of such ambition and intensity that most modern fiction looks timid and shallow in comparison. Then he revealed that it was me ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Confusion By Neal Stephenson

    Neal Stephenson's grand vision The Confusion is the second 900-page volume in Neal Stephenson's huge Baroque Cycle trilogy. Readers, and there will no doubt be many given how strong Stephenson's following is, will be fascinated to find that inside th ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • The Confusion

    Oh, the life of a Countess... a true Lady! And an incredibly SMART one at that!!!

    (See comments for "Quicksilver," as this book is essentially part II of III.)

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