The Macedonian

Name: The Macedonian
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter Jon Williams
ISBN: 9798200913664

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Series: Privateers and Gentlemen Series #1

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 08/27/2022

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure, Military Fiction, Sea Stories

Synopsis

Captain Favian Markham, USN, is a man surrounded by secrets—secrets that will be revealed when he is court-martialed for losing his ship.Secrets are held by his mistress Caroline. The secrets of enemy spies signaling to British ships over the horizon. And the greatest secret of the War of 1812, a secret which will be revealed once Favian breaks the enemy blockade in the Macedonian, a frigate stolen from his own government.Originally published as by “Jon Williams,” this is one of the historical novels, long out of print, with which Walter Jon Williams began his career.

About Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams has been nominated for every major science fiction award, including Hugo and Nebula award nominations for his novel City on Fire. His books include The Sundering, The Praxis, Destiny’s Way, the Quillifer trilogy, and The Rift. He lives near Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, Kathy Hedges.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephan on June 22, 2023

(Walter) Jon Williams' Privateers & Gentlemen series deals with the exploits of (ficticious) Favian Markham, a hero very much in Horatio Hornblowers image, but serving in the young US navy of the early 19th century, during the first Barbary War and the War of 1812. The setting borrows a lot from act......more