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Agent Provocateur: The Dorset Boy Book 3 Kindle Edition

by Christopher C Tubbs (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 3,076 ratings
The third of the series. Doing jobs that an officer and a gentlemen wouldn't be caught dead doing has earned Marty the rank of Lieutenant at an early age. He is young, he comes from peasant stock, he is dispensable. but more than all of that, he is willing. That makes him very useful to British Security lead by William Wickham the spymaster of Britain and Admiral Hood (retired) who is secretly running the Navy's dirty jobs branch, The Special Operations Flotilla. Add to that the love of his life Lady Caroline Candor and Marty leads an exciting, deadly and passionate life. Treachery in the Batavian Republic leads to an undercover operation deep in French territory with unexpected results. Back home an unexpected development see's Marty and Caroline's relationship take a big step forward and things develop on the home front. Until Marty is sent to South Africa to take care of a French sponsored pirate threat to the British East India Company. That leads him to India and a link up with Arthur Wellesley.

It's explosive, passionate and exciting. What a life!
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    The Dorset Boy
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    231 pages
  3. Language
    English
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  5. Publication date
    January 18, 2019
  6. Reading age
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The third in the series takes our hero deeper into the world of espionage and also down to the southern hemisphere. Researching it was fun and and had me looking at everything from drug addiction to some interesting weapons from long forgotten manufacturers.  I also wanted to expand on his personal life and, even though some wouldn't get it, tried to stay true to both the time and my family history.  Yes young men got married at eighteen or younger and yes the girl was almost invariably pregnant.  My Family tree from that time is full of marriages like that and they stayed together for life in the main. So this was a fun book to write and I hope you enjoy it.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07MY2ZJ2X
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 18, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.2 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 231 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 3 of 17 ‏ : ‎ The Dorset Boy
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 - 18 years
  • Customer Reviews:
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Christopher C Tubbs

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Christopher C Tubbs, is a SABA 2020 Fiction Book award short listed Author. A dog loving descendent of a long line of Dorset clay miners who has traced his family tree back to the 16th century in the Isle of Purbeck. He left school at 16 to take an apprenticeship in Avionics and has been a public speaker for most of his career and was one of the founders of a successful games company back in the 1990’s.

Now in his sixties he is writing the stories he had going around in his head for many years. Thanks to inspiration from great fiction and fantasy authors he was finally able to put digit to keyboard and start writing the Dorset Boy series. He makes no apologies that he write for himself. The stories emerge as he writes and is often surprised by the twists and turns that they take. His dogs sit by him as he writes and it would be unfair to leave them out so look out for them in The Dorset Boy series.Now living in the Netherlands Antilles on the island of Bonaire with his wife and furry kids.

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Customers find the book's story engaging with plenty of action throughout the series. Moreover, they describe it as a quick and enjoyable read with well-developed characters. However, the book receives negative feedback for its grammatical mistakes and frequent errors and typos.

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20 customers mention "Story quality"17 positive3 negative

Customers enjoy the story quality of the book, finding it interesting with plenty of action throughout.

"...Riding shot gun” sounds more like American cowboy than Brit speak. Nice story to while away a lazy day or two." Read more

"...Hope so, otherwise the book needs better proofing! Good story, lots of action, and I enjoyed it..... Quick read....." Read more

"Quick read and a good story however the author's use of some modern phrases detract a little...." Read more

"This is an excellent read for a self published book. The story is very good. The editing,however is a bit lacking( if you are a picky person)...." Read more

13 customers mention "Readability"13 positive0 negative

Customers find the book enjoyable and easy to read, describing it as a must-read and a quick read.

"This was a good yarn and easy reading. Some slang sounded 20th Century and not 1800’s. “..." Read more

"...Good story, lots of action, and I enjoyed it..... Quick read....." Read more

"...Caroline and his daughter are with him. He also has his crew. Fun read." Read more

"Quick read and a good story however the author's use of some modern phrases detract a little...." Read more

3 customers mention "Character development"3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book.

"This book and books1,2, are extremely well written. Character development is well done, fiction but historicslly and technically accurate...." Read more

"Watching the continued growth of the main character is strong. There are times when the narrative drags a little. That is not unbearable though." Read more

"Great series of books. you will love all the characters..." Read more

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Customers find the book's grammar problematic, with multiple instances of grammatical mistakes and frequent errors and typos throughout the text.

"Lots of typos and extra meaningless words.....possibly in the electronic version only? Hope so, otherwise the book needs better proofing!..." Read more

"...And the proof reading is quite lacking — errors and typos are frequent...." Read more

"...My enjoyment was slightly diminished due to poor editing and inadequate proofreading in this particular book, which wasn't the case with the..." Read more

"...I have found at least a dozen errors, most of which are mangled turns of phrase or homophone mistakes (discreet vs discrete was the final straw)...." Read more

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  • SheriffJohn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, Fast Read
    Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2023
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    This was a good yarn and easy reading. Some slang sounded 20th Century and not 1800’s. “Riding shot gun” sounds more like American cowboy than Brit speak. Nice story to while away a lazy day or two.
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  • Paul Clemens
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story
    Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019
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    Lots of typos and extra meaningless words.....possibly in the electronic version only? Hope so, otherwise the book needs better proofing! Good story, lots of action, and I enjoyed it.....
    Quick read.....
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  • SgtMaj Miller
    5.0 out of 5 stars Marty in the Spy Game
    Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025
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    Marty is also Lord Candor; married to Duchess Caroline. He is assigned to India to report on French activities. Caroline and his daughter are with him. He also has his crew. Fun read.
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  • High Seas Fan
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story
    Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019
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    Quick read and a good story however the author's use of some modern phrases detract a little. Also in one of the previous books there are a couple of minor geographical/navigational errors.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dorset boy fan
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023
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    This is an excellent read for a self published book. The story is very good. The editing,however is a bit lacking( if you are a picky person). As I finish each book I feel very excited to move onto the next book.
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  • RRR
    3.0 out of 5 stars A fun read, but…
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2021
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    This was a fun read. However, the plot and some of the activities are a bit hard to believe. And the proof reading is quite lacking — errors and typos are frequent. I am glad that I read it, but I will choose other books to read before I get to the fourth of the series.
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  • Roger Schulz
    5.0 out of 5 stars VERY GOOD READING SERIES
    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2022
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    This is a very action packed series. I usually get started in a series and start losing interest, but this series is so good, I am very much looking forward to the next book. I'm still not convinced I could get thru this entire series, but will let everyone know as I progress. The story is one of the best I have ever read, always interesting. Give it a try, it's worth it.
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  • KenGordon
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2019
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    The story depends on quite a bit of luck and it plays fast and loose with the peerage laws of the time. I believe Caroline would have lost title and would have become a dowager upon the death of her husband and she could not confer peerage on her new husband by marriage. However, this oversight helps the story.
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  • Paul
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
    Reviewed in Australia on March 13, 2019
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    Very exact and indicative of the times. Hopefully this will be a forerunner to a great series by this author.
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  • fiddler
    5.0 out of 5 stars adventurous
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2023
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    A hot story, with constant action. Marty was a brain box for good planning, and executed his plans to a tee.
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  • doug swan
    5.0 out of 5 stars history
    Reviewed in Canada on October 24, 2019
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    great tale and a good way to spend a dull day
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  • Kindle User
    2.0 out of 5 stars Needs Work
    Reviewed in Canada on November 25, 2020
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    The plots in this series are interesting, but the presentation needs a lot of work. The spelling is terrible. In fact it is atrocious. One example is "synched" rather than "cinched", as in "cinched around his waist".
    Grammar is equally bad,with misplaced or missing commas, sentences with no ending etc.
    I tried to overlook these issues but finally gave up.
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  • Keith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book Hard to put down.
    Reviewed in Australia on November 17, 2019
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    Good book Hard to put down.
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