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Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau)

Jules Verne · 1897 · Novel

Setting: contemporary (1890s)

Synopsis

In another science-based entry in his Voyages Extraordinaires series, Verne takes us on the journey of Simon Hart, an engineer who poses as a medical attendant to the scientist Thomas Roch. Roch’s invention of a world-conquering weapon has driven him insane. As the paranoid doctor rests in a sanatorium, the vicious pirate Ker Karraje kidnaps both Roch and Hart. Karraje takes them to a secret hideaway in a burned-out island caldera in the Bermudas—but Hart hatches an ingenious escape plan.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Classic LiteratureFictionThrillerInventorsWeapons of mass destructionPatriotismAbductionAvariceLoyaltyMentally ill

ISBN: 9781537554914 — CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016, English

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openlibrary_id: OL1099321W

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