Treachery [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Hodder
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340961120
• ISBN-13: 978-0340961124
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,985,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I wanted to go to sea ever since I can remember. My mother says that as a toddler I went up to sailors on the street, and on one occasion dragged home a dead seabird because it smelled of the sea! I was entranced when my great uncle Tom Clay, a seaman in square-rigged ships who had sailed around the Horn in the "Cutty Sark", took me over this ship. As a young boy I read everything about the sea and I was especially terrified by a description of a great storm, but longed to go to sea to experience one.
I won a scholarship to a grammar school, but my mind was captivated by seeing low grey shapes far out to sea, outward bound to who knew where. I passed this sight every day on my way to school; my scholastic performance suffered!
In the hope of having the nonsense knocked out of me, my father sent me to a tough sea-training school. This only strengthened my resolve for a life at sea and at fifteen I joined the Royal Navy.
After leaving the Navy (rated Petty Officer) I practised as an educational psychologist. I worked for some time in Hong Kong, where I was commissioned into the Royal Naval Reserve.
I now live in Devon with my wife and literary partner, Kathy - and two Siamese cats.

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3.0 out of 5 stars great read, April 25, 2011

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This review is from: Treachery (Thomas Kydd 9) (Kindle Edition)

It's not that it's a great book, it's just average within the series, which still places it above other alternative books.

Stockwin has made his bed, and yes the language and characters become a bit thick and predictable, but it's a fantastic series to read. I've read all the kindle editions, made for a fun month of reading.