Beyond Thirty · Character
Buckingham
A Pan-American naval officer whose restless hunger for the violent, romantic past hurls him across the forbidden meridian into a world of tigers and tyrants.
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Jefferson Turck, twenty-one and bred to the navy, finds his era of peace suffocating and dreams of the wars and wildness his ancestors knew. That longing drives him past 30°, where a tiger's charge and a shipmate's…
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Relationship types
- Romantic
- Rivalry
- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Victory crew and contacts
- Protagonist
- Encountered figures and leaders
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- the girl
romantic · positive
- Victory
rivalry · negative
- Wettin
social · ambivalent
- Mary
family · positive
- the girl
romantic · positive
- the girl
romantic · positive
- Victory
rivalry · negative
- Mary
family · positive
- Victory
rivalry · negative
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