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The Coward of Grimsby

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The Coward of Grimsby

Authors & Illustrator

Author:

Eric
Daniel
Ryan
Second Place Book Award

Second Place Award

Fiction > Short Stories
Third Place Book Award

Third Place Award

Fiction > Historical - Pre-2010

Description

In the final years of the Victorian era, a French fisherman and an English aristocrat team up on a harrowing adventure that brings forth an epic battle of greed, survival, and redemption. In the port city of Grimsby, England, a down-on-his-luck French fisherman named Georges DuFort meets Cornelius Braddock, a widowed aristocrat searching for a reason to live. Georges tells him the tale of a long-lost ship loaded with Spanish gold that disappeared off the African coast while on the run from the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. After Georges shares the treasure’s secret location, the two men plan for the voyage of a lifetime. Things then take a turn for the worse when Georges mysteriously disappears on the eve of the journey, forcing Braddock to embark on the ill-fated treasure hunt without him.