Volume 2 The Baroque Cycle
The Confusion: Books Four & Five of The Baroque Cycle
Narrated by Simon Prebble , Katherine Kellgren , Kevin Pariseau , Neal Stephenson (introduction)

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves, including one .Half-Cocked Jack. Shaftoe, devises
a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues that will place the intrepid band
at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful
despots across vast oceans and around the globe.

Back in Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and
confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune
by France.s most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head
(or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return
of her most precious possession -- her child.Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their
grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies. And Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the
Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.

The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson.s award-winning series, spans the late 17th and early 18th centuries,
combining history, adventure, science, invention, piracy, and alchemy into one sweeping tale. It is a
gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive historical epic populated by the likes of Isaac
Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV, along with some of the most inventive
literary characters in modern fiction.

Audible.s complete and unabridged presentation of The Baroque Cycle was produced in cooperation with
Neal Stephenson. Each volume includes an exclusive introduction read by the author.

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