Pellerin

I obtained this one in e-book format. It is a very different reading experience as the tablet I read it from did not present the full page format in a manner that is legible but reduced from what a paper album would be.

So I had to zoom in on each or two or three of the story vignettes.
A bit at times like zooming in when in a museum on the details of a painting.

What is astounding is that Pellerin's work gains from this treatment as it is so well detailed.
Example when a bird's eye view of show more a fortress by the sea shows two scenes of the action unfolding at the same time.
The hero has lots of adventures and is mistaken for having committed a crime.

There is also a red herring in that the elderly assassinated reveals that the murderers also robbed his ancestor of the pre-Colombian secrets of a statuette giving power to the one who owns it. So picture a French Privateer transformed instantly in an 18th century Sam Spade.

A local britons mob nearly hangs him but he escapes narrowly, while members of the local gentry steal his boat and torture his crew.

Not the first time in literature that a boat captain is victim of an injustice-thinking Edmond Dantes in Dumas' Monte Cristo.

Excellent 18th century story.

Pellerin is a master story teller and volume one ends on a cliffhanger which leads to wanting to read no. 2. show less

Somptuous story which happens mostly at night in the Bay of Brest in the mid-XVIIIth Century.

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Terwijl zijn schip zeilklaar wordt gemaakt, moet kaapvaarder Yann de Kermeur zich een weg banen door een web van intriges, dat geheimzinnige en machtige vijanden rond hem hebben gesponnen tussen Versailles en Brest. Wie zijn zij? En waarom hebben ze het op hem gemunt? De tijd dringt, en onze koene zeevaarder zou wel eens de laatste toeverlaat van de Franse koning kunnen zijn.