Pressed into King George's Navy for the second time in a month, John Pearce and his Pelicans find themselves working aboard the HMS Brazen, sailing the Channel from Plymouth to Dover in search of the numerous French privateers that prey on English merchant shipping: her task to stop them and, if possible, to capture or destroy them. Pearce has greater things on his mind--he must rescue his ailing father from the dangers of revolutionary Paris and to do that he must somehow leave the ship. He tries mutiny, the crew being readied by failure, but Captain Benjamin Colbourne is quick and smartly promotes Pearce to Midshipman. Pearce is thereby freed to leave the ship immediately--which appears to the remaining Pelicans as though their leader has deserted them.
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'High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine, and excitements on terra firma to match' --Literary Review
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David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944 and has had a variety of jobs, including selling everything from business machines to soap. He has always had an abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author of a number of bestselling books, he know lives in Deal with his wife, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook and their two children.
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This second, in what I hope to be a long series, is most interesting in that the main character is so reluctant to take on what he has to do. He is swept along by unfolding history, and his own inate capabilities, to become more and more a leader and man of consequence. A rich read!
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I have about 100 British naval series books and David Donachie has written two of the series. This series has some different perspectives about the 1770 to 1820 time period that the others do not have. A good enjoyable all around book. David is still writting and I have just recieved his newest which continues the saga of Lt. Pearce who doesn't want to be a lieutenant in the British navy. The only lieutenant in any of the series books who talks back to Admirals, because he doesn't care if they kick him out of the navy.
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'Welcome to hell, brother.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
armed cutter, companionway ladder, bow chasers, ditty bag, sail plan, sheeted home, common seaman, canvas screen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ralph Barclay, John Pearce, Adam Pearce, Charlie Taverner, Michael O'Hagan, Captain Gould, Horne Tooke, Lieutenant Colbourne, Midshipman Short, Captain Barclay, Davidge Gould, Emily Barclay, Coal Barge, Lady Harrington, Ben Walker, National Assembly, Captain Marchand, Lieutenant Roscoe, Cornelius Gherson, Rufus Dommet, Henry Digby, King Louis, Lord Howe, Martin Dent, Place de la Revolution New!
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'Welcome to hell, brother.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
armed cutter, companionway ladder, bow chasers, ditty bag, sail plan, sheeted home, common seaman, canvas screen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ralph Barclay, John Pearce, Adam Pearce, Charlie Taverner, Michael O'Hagan, Captain Gould, Horne Tooke, Lieutenant Colbourne, Midshipman Short, Captain Barclay, Davidge Gould, Emily Barclay, Coal Barge, Lady Harrington, Ben Walker, National Assembly, Captain Marchand, Lieutenant Roscoe, Cornelius Gherson, Rufus Dommet, Henry Digby, King Louis, Lord Howe, Martin Dent, Place de la Revolution New!
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