Book description
The Inshore Squadron is the twelfth Richard Bolitho story and
chronologically it follows the events covered by Signal - Close Action!
In September 1800 Richard Bolitho, a freshly appointed rear-admiral,
assumes command of his own squadron - but, as the cruel demands of war
spread from Europe to the Baltic, he soon realizes that his
experience, gained in the line of battle, has ill-prepared him for the
intricate manoeuvring of power politics.
Under his flag the Inshore Squadron has to ride out the bitter
hardship of blockade duty and the swift, deadly encounters with the
enemy. An old hatred steps from the past to pose a personal threat to
him, but at the gates of Copenhagen, where his flag flies admidst the
fury of battle, Bolitho must put all private hopes and fears behind him.
Alexander Kent is the author of twenty-seven acclaimed books
featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in
the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he has written over
thirty novels and two non-fiction books.
