If you like Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester, you will love this captivating, vivid and exciting page-turner from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent – guaranteed to keep you hooked! ‘One of our foremost writers of naval fiction’ — Sunday Times’Shipwreck, survival … a spirited battle … a splendid yarn” — The Times’A very hard book to put down’ — ***** Reader review’Awesome’ — ***** Reader review’Gripping to the end’ — ***** Reader review’Superb’ — ***** Reader review’A great yarn’ — ***** Reader review***************************************************************************************************1809: Returning safely to England after the dramatic capture of Martinque, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all too brief respite from war and politics in the arms of his mistress Catherine Somervell.But the shadow of a new conflict already darkens the horizon. The old enemy, France, forges an uneasy alliance with America – threatening the safety of British trade routes.Although ordered immediately to the Indian Ocean, for the first time Bolitho’s thoughts are not of glory but his own – and the Navy’s – past.Both Nelson and Collingwood died in their country’s service. For the navy’s newest Admiral, is there life beyond the sea itself?
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