Globe Pequot / McBooks Press
Pages: 392
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4930-6627-8 • Paperback • April 2022 • $19.95 • (£14.99)
David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in British naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the clandestine services during the Second World War. He has 51 published novels to his credit. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.
High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match
(Previous Edition Praise)— Literary Review
Pure adventure with excitement and daring all the way . . . historical fiction at its very best.
— Historical Novels Review Online
Outflanking and out-gunning C. S. Forester.
— Cambridge Evening News
High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.
— Daily Sport
Exciting and unpredictable.
— The Bookbag