Product Description

The year is 1774 and Bolitho, now a newly appointed third lieutenant, joins the Destiny at Plymouth. The frigate is dispatched on a secret mission far south to Rio and then the Caribbean where they face the hazards of conspiracy, treason and piracy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #295078 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-22
• Released on: 2005-11-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From Library Journal
Published in 1977, 1975, and 1980, respectively, these are the first three installations in Kent's ongoing series of the adventures of protagonist Richard Bolitho. The plots follow Bolitho's various exploits in the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. McBooks will eventually reprint all 23 Bolitho novels.
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Review
“One of our foremost writers of naval fiction.”
–Sunday Times

The New York Times, July 18, 1976
The sea story is one of the most enduring and enjoyable staples in popular literature. Tales of stout men under sail, hurling iron across the water at one another were absolute dynamite when Frederick Marryat held a huge readership wired to their seats in the early 19th century with his stories about Midshipman Easy. The Horatio Hornblower novels of C.S. Forester were among the most genuinely satisfying novels of the last forty years, and now that Alexander Kent is patrolling the same sea lanes, the stories are as good as ever . . .

Kent's winning hero is Richard Bolitho, who is squarely in the tradition of Captain Hornblower and Midshipman Easy. All of the heroic elements are here . . . Good, solid stuff that still packs a wallop and will probably continue to do so when another writer comes along 30 years from now to tell the old stories again to a new generation.

My heart still belongs to C.S. Forester because I grew up with him, but Alexander Kent is a worthy successor to the master