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    Requiem For A Ruler Of Worlds: The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt
    Requiem For A Ruler Of Worlds: The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt
    Requiem For A Ruler Of Worlds: The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt
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    Requiem For A Ruler Of Worlds: The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt

    Written by Brian Daley

    Narrated by Brian Holsopple

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    Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Earth's rulers, for Hobart Floyt--a minor Terran bureaucrat-- had been left a mysterious inheritance by the deceased ruler of a small but wealthy interstellar empire. Earth was dirt-poor, and the government wanted Floyt's inheritance; but to collect it, Floyt would have to travel to the Reading of the Will...many light-years away! And so Alacrity Fitzhugh--a young, but seasoned spacer--is blackmailed into shepherding this naive Terran on a dangerous interstellar quest.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateJul 15, 2014
    ISBN9781614535935
    Requiem For A Ruler Of Worlds: The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt
    Author

    Brian Daley

    Brian Daley is a former chef and teacher, who is a member of a large family with links to early settlement in northern New South Wales. Educated in Sydney where he trained in cookery at the Wentworth hotel. He has an interest in history and politics, especially in the period of the ALP split of the 1950s. Though now living in Far North Queensland he has a special fondness for the towns of his heritage especially Grafton and the whole Northern Rivers area.

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      This was a fun, humorous book. A well worn plot set in a rather shallow future, but the characters were good & it all worked very well together. There are a couple of others that follow this. All great rainy day material. Candy books that I keep around to read occasionally for relaxation.