Ramage's Diamond [Mass Market Paperback]

Dudley Pope (Author)

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• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Grafton Books; Reprint edition (1999)
• ISBN-10: 0261673556
• ISBN-13: 978-0261673557
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,102,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great rebound from #6, January 30, 2007

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Dr J (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ramage's Diamond (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 7) (Paperback)

This is installment 7 of Dudley Pope's Nicholas Ramage series. It is heards and tails above #6. Ramage is the quintessential hero. The reader knows that Ramage will succeed in his endeavors. The fun part about these novels is finding out HOW Ramage will succeed. He has way too much success--almost Deus ex machina. The action and episodes in this novel are all interesting. The battles are described well and keep the reader's interest. As usual, though, there is really too much detail when Ramage has his men hoist some guns onto the top of a mountain. Pope, just let the guys get the guns up and start shooting at the Frogs! For that, this book get 4 and a half stars. But the rest of the book is great fun. I might add that the BBC chose the wrong story for its naval hero. The Ramage stories are much more interesting than Hornblower.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Engineering mastrerpiece off Martinique, December 2, 2005

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This review is from: Ramage's Diamond (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 7) (Paperback)

Based on historical events, this novel retells the story of a tremendous feat of martial engineering. Ramage captures frigates and schooners and builds his own fleet. Recognizing the importance of controlling the shipping lanes in and out of Fort de France, he manages to mount baterries on a huge towering rock, known as the Diamond. With the batteries and his ragtag fleet, he manages to defeat a much larger French fleet and supply convoy, sinking, burning or capturing the entire lot. The detail work is good, and the story moves well, never letting the readers interest lag. My personal favorite in the series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The author is back in form in an excellent adventure series, September 8, 2010

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Michael K. Smith (South Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ramage's Diamond (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 7) (Paperback)

The book before this seventh one in the generally excellent and highly enjoyable Napoleonic naval series was not one of the author's more successful efforts, focusing as it did on Lieut. Lord Nicholas Ramage's undercover mission into Boulogne to spy out the French preparations for the invasion of Britain. Ramage did well out of it, however, being made post into a frigate by the First Lord himself. He was immediately sent off to Barbados with important dispatches to the admiral and on the way had to whip into ship a very slovenly crew nearly ruined by a drunken captain and his equally alcoholic first lieutenant. He has three young new lieutenants of the First Lord's choosing and all turn out to be excellent, fortunately for him. From Barbados, he's sent to take over the blockade of the harbor of Fort Royal at Martinique, the only remaining significant French holding in the Caribbean. Ramage mounts a cutting-out operation that nets him a French frigate and a couple of privateer schooners. And off the southwest coast of the island is Diamond Rock, sticking up like a canine tooth from deep water. In 1804, Commodore Hood managed to sway up enough ship's guns to turn the Rock into a fortress to control the shipping lanes into Martinique, but here (naturally) Ramage does the job, spurred on by the knowledge that a French convoy is due with very badly needed supplies for the island. With his small squadron, he makes his preparations, building his plans around the element of surprise -- a point Pope makes a number of times as Ramage drums the principle into his subordinates. The whole thing, from the arming of Diamond Rock to the breath-holding action against the convoy, is fascinating and very well done indeed. And at the end of it all, Ramage is poised to embark on another "special service," so there's more to come. This is one of the best in the series so far.