Book description
The time is January 1782, and British Captain Richard Bolitho is
ordered to take the frigate Phalarope to the Caribbean, where
the hard-pressed royal squadrons are fighting for their lives against
the combined fleets of France and Spain and the upstart American
privateers. It should have been a proud moment for so young and junior
a captain - but the Phalarope has already been driven to near
mutiny and she is regarded with shame and suspicion.
But Bolitho is no ordinary man. His determination is blended with
humanity, and his efforts to give the ship back her pride mark him
apart from his contemporaries. As the little frigate sails under the
blazing sun and fights her inner battles as well as faces the bloody
broadsides of the enemy, Bolitho spares neither himself nor his men -
and in the final great battle of the Saintes the chance comes to prove
what both he and the Phalarope can achieve.
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the
Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his
own name and more than twenty best-selling historical novels featuring
Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
